Mr. Dendi Permadi invited as speaker at International Webinar Flagships i-Entertainment 2.0: Leveraging Research and Development through 4IR and Extended Reality
The programme coordinator for Virtual Reality programme, Mr. Dendi Permadi has been invited as one of the speakers at the International Webinar Flagships i-Entertainment 2.0: Leveraging Research and Development through 4IR and Extended Reality. His talk, “Virtual & Augmented Vision; Making the Impossible Possible” was streamed live on Selayang Community College Youtube channel on the 8th of October 2021. The event aims to highlight the best practices related to immersive technology and provide opportunities for Diploma in Games Art students, Polytechnic and Community College students as well as lecturers to enhance their knowledge and skills related to the field.

Advertising Design Industry Talk with Asst. Prof. Dr. Zuhaili
The Advertising Design department was honored to have their External Examiner Assistant Prof. Dr. Zuhaili Akmal, who is now with Sunway University, share his journey and experience working as an Art Director for McCann Erickson in New York during an Industry Talk for Advertising Design Final Year Students on the 7th of October 2021. His candid and honest sharing provided students with valuable insight into preparing themselves for agency life; from tips on brainstorming big ideas fast to learning how to deal with rejection and stress.

FCM Internal Seminar series with Mark Teh
The faculty has taken initiative to invite an established artist that operate across various disciplines such as performance, media, archive and documentary as this week’s speaker for the seminar series. Mark Teh is a performance maker, researcher, and curator based in Kuala Lumpur. His diverse, collaborative projects take on documentary, speculative and generative forms, and address the entanglements of history, memory and counter-mapping. His practice is situated primarily in performance, but also operates via exhibitions, education, social interventions, curating and writing. This week’s seminar titled “Documentary Performance: Researching and Collaborating as Artists, Self-Ethnographers & Social Actors” was attended by most of FCM’s academicians.

Kicking of a new trimester: 2115
The beginning of a new trimester is always an exciting time at FCM. The September intake has started their first week of study last week. We would like to welcome all of our new students to FCM and we wish you both a happy and successful time here. We understand that the first few days you are likely to feel daunting and it is quite normal to feel apprehensive about your new start. However, FCM has a very friendly and informal atmosphere which we hope will make students feel comfortable, confident and positive about making new friends, meeting their lecturers and starting their course.