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The Reef Animated Gifs

Magda — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:08:21 +0000

Animated gifs of painted paper “fauna” elements against a textile sculpture background from the Reef project that was installed at upART 2011. There are a couple of Happy Sleepies in there, too.

The left side of the Reef.

Happy Sleepy 2010 and Geom 1 spin in front of The Purple Section.

One of the Plane Fish, Geoms, and several Pink Eyes and Dark Matters do their thing.

Plane Fish, looking right.

What it looked like when the balcony door opened and a gust of air came through...

One of the Black matter quadrangles. These mysterious Reef elements have a thick coat of blackest matte gouache and eyes made of real pearls from Cambodia.

Polytopia Photos

Magda — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:27:04 +0000

The best and most recent photos to date of the Polytopia textile art as it was installed as the “coral” component in the Reef installation at upART 2011.

Polytopia; post manufacturing industry textiles including canvass, upholstery, vinyl, nylon, foiled nylon wall covering, ripstop and waterproof fabrics, thread, staples; pyramid components 6 x 6 inches at the base x 7 inches tall, above installation at upART 2011 overall size 9 x 12 feet wide; 2011.

You can view all the images as a Flash slideshow, below, which also has additional images from the complete Polytopia photos set on Flickr. Highly recommended in full screen mode!

Geom 1 paper sculpture

Magda — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:37:22 +0000

Geom 1 painted paper sculpture by Marc Ngui.

This one is about the size of a football.

This Geom was made to be part of a larger installation of textile art and paper sculptures called The Reef, on display 27 to 30 October 2011 at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto for the annual upART Contemporary Art Fair.

RNA Drawings

Marc — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:33:42 +0000

A scan of a sketchbook of drawings that were made concurrently to an ongoing discussion in the RNA Connective about the nature of technology and its effect on human culture.

RNA Connective was a Toronto based collective of artists, engineers, and architects who met regularly from 1999 to 2001 to discuss their observations about the rapid growth of technology and speculate on its implications for the future.

Some of these discussions and the above drawings were published in The Architecture of Intelligence, Birkhauser 2001.

Open publication - Free publishing - More collaboration

Happy Sleepies for Artists Help Japan, Toronto 2011

Magda — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:13:25 +0000

These two Happy Sleepies are heading to the Artists Help Japan, Toronto 2011 benefit and silent auction.

Two matching Happy Sleepies for Artists Help Japan fundraiser, Toronto 2011

17 April at 12:00 noon to midnight

Revival Bar
783 College Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Free event!

Full info on the Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=208247572520178

Quote from the press release, from Bobby Chiu, the illustrator, teacher and founder of Toronto’s Imaginism studios behind the Artists Help Japan: Toronto event:

“As artists we are tremendously inspired by Japan and Japanese culture. We were all personally affected by the quake, tsunami, and resulting damage. It is important to give back for all that Japan has given us, and we can think of no better way to do so than with our art.”

Artists Help Japan: Toronto will feature more than 24 artists and illustrators from the Greater Toronto Area creating original drawings for 12 hours! This is an unprecedented opportunity for the general public to commission an original drawing from a professional artist and watch its creation in process; the artist’s fee will be donated entirely to the Canadian Red Cross.

In addition:
- Dozens more cartoonists will donate original art, books, and other rare items to be featured in a silent-auction on-site at Revival Bar.
- Live art demonstrations from Toronto Illustrators on stage, with the final pieces to be auctioned off live at the event
- $1 from the sale of every drink at Revival Bar will be donated to the Canadian Red Cross.

Admission to the ARTISTS HELP JAPAN: TORONTO event is free, and all ages are welcome.

: Hand embroidered eyes on one of the Happy Sleepies.

: Backs of the Happy Sleepies for Artists Help Japan fundraiser

: Closeup of one of the Happy Sleepies.

Light Trails Photo Drawings

Magda — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:55:28 +0000

Two photographs that Marc made with a flashlight and a camera set to a long exposure.
You can see more in the Flickr photo set Light Drawings.

Four Corners light drawing by Marc Ngui

Party Ghosts light drawing by Marc Ngui

Video Game Epiphanies

Marc — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:06:07 +0000

Video Game Epiphanies is a catalogue of formative virtual experiences.

Open publication - Free publishing - More zine

Relax, Oh Yeah, to the Day

Magda — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:32:19 +0000

Relax, Oh Yeah, to the Day

I wrote the words and drew the word bubble. Marc did the rest. Oh yeah.

The drawing shows The Tourists, two of Marc’s recurring characaters that have so far haunted pages in his sketchbooks here and there and are starting to make more regular appearances, such as in this postcard.

Igor Stagljar Lab website update

Magda — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:53:18 +0000

The Stagljar Lab website recently got updated. Marc drew some new illustrations, a few new pages were added, nicer photo page layouts for bigger photos, bigger and better navigation, larger text fonts and a wider, bigger layout (monitors are getting larger!)

Header of the homepage of Igor Stagljar Lab at the Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto. Featuring the oh-so-endearing glowing crystals animated gif. India ink illustration by Marc Ngui, digital colouring and development by Magda Wojtyra.

Primarily, the home page Igor now has jet flames shooting out of his boots and an even swishier lab coat than the last one. The speed lines are a nice touch. Don’t miss the nano technology flying spaceship under the cell membrane illustration on the Links page.

This website was originally developed by us in 2005. Igor was impressed with the floating amoeba website that Marc and I had developed for one of his colleage’s, the Grant Brown Laboratory website, also at the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research at the University of Toronto.

The original idea for the Staglar Lab was inspired by Igor’s impressive height – an even two meters tall – and his exuberantly good natured character. Like, if Krypton never did blow up and a Superman’s uncle continues, working away in his lab, probing genetics for the cures to the last problems that stand between society and the shining utopia it imagines for itself. Doesn’t that sound nice? And Igor, being the coolest client of all time not only said yes to the concept but three years later came back for more. Oh, yeah.

Dr. Igor Stagljar, 2010 version.

Coolest client EVER.

Ink and watercolour illustration by Marc Ngui and digital collage by Magda Wojtyra using the clients project images.

Cell membrane with nano technology spaceship addition. “G-Protein Coupled Receptor-interactome characterized by previous interactive proteomics approaches” says the caption to the original illustration on the lab’s research page.

Ink and watercolour illustration by Marc Ngui.

Crystal Kings paintings

Magda — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:35:57 +0000

The Crystal Kings paintings were sketched out by Marc, painted by Magda, and finished with fine black lines and detail work by Marc. They are painted with acrylic guache, pearlescent, metallic and day-glo paints, and feature an ultra matte black guached that makes them seem to be painted on black velvet.

Crystal King Birdbear

Crystal King Froghawk

Crystal King Pink Robot

Crystal King Ghostbear

Crystal King Pinkcat

Marc Ngui with the Crystal King Birdbear painting.