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Mr. Gregory Wee Lik Hoo

Senior Lecturer (Design)
MA in Film (Northwestern University, Illinois, USA), BA in Business Computing (University of Winnipeg, Canada)

Faculty of Business, Design and Arts

Office No:+60 82 260 681
Fax No:+60 82 260 815
Room No: B205
Email: gwee@swinburne.edu.my

Biography

Greg Wee works in the intersection between creative digital media and cultural content by adapting contemporary and traditional cultural stories and communicating them through various visual storytelling forms such as interactive media, animation, comics and games.

Greg teaches a wide range of disciplines including art, comics illustration, animation and filmmaking. He researches on Malaysian cinema and the policies that affect the film industry.

His cartoon illustrations and comics have been published locally. In 2012-2013, he led a team of Swinburne Multimedia Design alumni to produce an original 13-episode animated series Rahsia Anak Rimba for TVi (Astro Channel 180). In 2016, he led another team to design and produce interactive museum displays for the Sarawak Museum’s Urang Sarawak exhibition.

Research Interests

Film Industry & National Cinema, Visual Identity in Film, Animation, Comics & Digital Creative Content

Media

  1. Gregory Wee Lik Hoo, Design Thinking to the Core. Borneo Post, Sarawak, Malaysia, 17 May 2017.
  2. ‘Local Films Yet To Be Universally Acclaimed.’ New Straits Times Online (Bernama). July 2, 2016. http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/07/156224/local-films-yet-be-universally-acclaimed
  3. ‘Understanding & Preserving Our Roots.’ New Sarawak Tribune. Aug 1, 2015. http://www.newsarawaktribune.com/news/47886/Understanding-and-preserving-our-roots/
  4. Gregory Wee Lik Hoo, Creative Content – Dawn Of A New Era. Borneo Post, Sarawak, Malaysia, 3 June 2009.
  5. Hosting YCON (Youth Connect, Alternate Saturdays, 11.15am-12pm, The RED Network, RTM Kuching) Guests interviewed include Bellefire, Marion Raven (previously M2M), Reshmonu, Zainal Abidin, Moshram, and other local bands. 2002-2005.
  6. Live radio studio interview about CIPTA 2005. ‘Dari Kampus’. Bahasa Malaysia Service, RTM Kuching.
  7. ‘A Place for New Filmmakers’. p.18. Entertainment, The Star. The Star Publications. January 18, 2002.
  8. RTM TV studio interview in conjunction with the Sarawak Millennium Film Festival 2002 with En Kamil Othman from MDC. Live cross-over from RTM Kuching to KL, ‘Selamat Pagi Malaysia’. January 22, 2002.
  9. NTV7 interview in conjunction with the Sarawak Millennium Film Festival 2002. January 21-23, 2002.
  10. Live phone interview with Jennifer Lau in conjunction with the Sarawak Millennium Film Festival 2002. The English Service, RTM Kuching. 91.9FM January 2002.
  11. ‘In Person’. Newspaper interview in conjunction with the Sarawak Millennium Film Festival 2002. pp. 1-3. Panorama, The Sarawak Tribune. The Sarawak Press, January 13, 2002.
  12. Sarawak Millennium Film Festival 2002 Press Conference with Ning Baizura. Subang Golf Club, January 10, 2002.
  13. RTM recorded studio interview with Jennifer Lau in conjunction with the Sarawak Millennium Film Festival 2002. The English Service, RTM Kuching. 91.9FM January 2002.
  14. Sarawak Millennium Film Festival 2002 Press Conference with Ning Baizura. Tribes, Holiday Inn. December, 2001.
  15. Live radio studio interview about the Cinematography Program. ‘Dari Kampus’. Bahasa Malaysia Service, RTM Kuching. November 2001.
  16. Gregory Wee Lik Hoo, Towards a New Cinema Movement in Sarawak? The Sarawak Tribune,” July 2, 1999, Malaysia, p. 4.

  • Publications

Publications

  • Liu, M.Y.A., Wee, L.H.G. (October 2015). Effectiveness of Facebook Group in Collecting Digital Cultural Heritage Stories: A Case Study of ‘The Story of Kuching’. International Conference on Applied and Creative Arts, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Organised by The Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
  • Ng, D.V., Wee L.H.G., Suai, W.M. (2013). Design of Interactive Multimedia Display Application for Sarawak Museum based on Visitors’ Preferences. Journal of Advanced computer Science and Technology Research, ISSN 2231-8852, Vol. 3 No. 1, 39-50.
  • Ng, D.V., Wee, L.H.G. (November 2012). Design of Interactive Multimedia Display Application for Sarawak Museum based on Visitors’ Preferences. Organised by the International Conference on Advanced Computer Science Applications and Technologies (ACSAT) (2012). Palace of the Golden Horses, KL. Organised by DSR Conferences.
  • Sim, S.Y., Wee, L.H.G. and Then, H.H.P. (October 2010). Social Software for Collaboration Adaptive Learning in E-learning. TARC International Conference On Learning & Teaching 2010, One World Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Organised by Tunku Abdul Rahman College.
  • Wandani, A.D., Wee L.H.G., Suai, W.M. (Sept 2011). Designing Interactive Mobile Comics for Multi-Touch Screen Phones. International Conference on Future Information Technology 2011, Quality Hotel, Singapore. Organised by the International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology.
  • Wee, L.H.G. (July 2011). Understanding the Malaysian Film Industry in Flux. International Conference on Applied and Creative Arts, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Organised by The Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts, University Malaysia Sarawak.
  • Wandani, A.D., Wee L.H.G., Suai, W.M. (July 2011). Mobile Phone as Media for Reading Comic: Identifying the Features Preferred by Malaysian Users. International Conference on Applied and Creative Arts, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Organised by The Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts, University Malaysia Sarawak.
  • Sim, S.Y.S., Wee L.H.G., Then, H.H.P. (March 2011). Learners’ Readiness: Integrating Social Software for Collaboration Adaptive Learning in E-learning. Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011 – Global Conference on Learning and Technology, The Sebel Albert Park, Melbourne. Organised by Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
  • Yap, F. and Wee, L.H.G. (December 2009). Feature Film Distribution & Exhibition in Malaysia: An Initial Overview. 3rd Asia Pacific Marketing Conference, Kuching. Organised by Faculty of Economics & Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
  • Wee, L.H.G. (April 2009). The Iban VCD Movies: Bad but Necessary. Inaugural Centre for Film and Television Studies Conference, Monash University, Melbourne. Organised by The School of English, Communications & Performance Studies, University of Melbourne (Clayton Campus).
  • Wee, L.H.G. (January 2008). Malaysian National Cinema: Under Construction. International Conference on Applied and Creative Arts (ICACA), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan. Organised by Faculty of Applied & Creative Arts (UNIMAS). ISBN 983-9257-82-3.
  • Wee, L. H.G. (2007). The Search for a National Cinema, Jurnal Skrin Malaysia, ISSN 1823-1020, Vol. 4, 151-162.
  • Wee, L.H.G. (July 2007). Legenda Ninchak. Gempak, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 15 July 2007. ISSN 1511-306X.
  • Wee, L.H.G. (November 2006). Building a New Malaysian National Cinema. ARC Asia Pacific Futures Research Network 2006 Signature event (Media: Policies, culture and futures in the Asia Pacific Region), Curtin University of Technology, Perth. Organised by Media-Asia Research Group (MARG) http://mediaasiaconference.humanities.curtin.edu.au/pdf/Gregory%20Wee%20Lik%20Hoo.pdf
  • Wee, L.H.G. (November 2006). The Problem of Identity in Malaysian Cinema.The XIIIth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association Melbourne, RMIT University, Melbourne. Organised by http://www.afiresearch.rmit.edu.au/fhc2006/pdf/FHAANZ_CONF_PROGRAM_FINAL.pdf Australian and New Zealand Film & History Association.
  • Wee, L.H.G. (September 2006). Who to Fund: The Continuing Search for a National Cinema. Conference of Media & Entertainment Organisation in ASEAN, Hotel Istana, KL. Organised by UNI-MEI (the Media, Entertainment and Arts sector of Union Network International) and UNI-APRO (UNI Asia & Pacific Regional Office), with funding from FES (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung).
  • Wee, L. H.G., and De Run, E. C. (August 2005). Creative Arts And Business Research Methods: A Marriage Of Qual And Quant. The 3rd International Qualitative Research Convention (IQRC 2005), Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. Organised by UTM & Qualitative Research Association of Malaysia.
  • Wee, L.H.G. (August 2005). Film As Business, National Screen Seminar, Annexe Hall, UiTM, Shah Alam. Organised by UiTM & FINAS.
  • Wee, L. H.G. (2005). Film Funding & National Cinema At Home – Learning From The Ozzies, Jurnal Skrin Malaysia, ISSN 1823-1020, Vol. 2, 61-68.
  • Wee, L.H.G. (November, 1998). The New Millennium: Challenges for the Malaysian Film Industry. 2nd Colloquium on UNIMAS Contributions to Research, Merdeka Palace Hotel & Suite, Kuching, Malaysia.
  • Invited Presentations: Wee, L.H.G. (July-Present 2011). tHe Spring Contemporary Art exhibition, tHe Spring, Kuching. Organised by Sarawak Artists Society, tHe Spring.
  • Invited Presentations: Wee, L.H.G. (November 2009). Union. The Words Around Us typography exhibition, Art Museum, Kuching. Organised by Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus, Goethe-Institut Malaysia, Buchstaben Museum, Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin and Sarawak Museum Department