{"id":33732,"date":"2022-05-12T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/mad-tech\/2022\/05\/12\/art-designs-derek-ham-to-be-featured-at-cannes\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:21:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:21:41","slug":"art-designs-derek-ham-to-be-featured-at-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/mad-tech\/2022\/05\/12\/art-designs-derek-ham-to-be-featured-at-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"Art + Design’s Derek Ham to be Featured at Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Department Head of Art + Design Derek Ham will show his recent VR title, Barnstormers: Determined to Win<\/em><\/a> in one of the world\u2019s most well-known and prestigious film festivals – the 2022 March\u00e9 du Film – Festival de Cannes<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barnstormers<\/em> will be shown at Cannes XR, the festival’s VR category. This means the game will also compete for the VeeR Future Award<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Ham’s guidance<\/a>, Art + Design aligned its research and scholarship with entertainment industries through the efforts of faculty and students. Now, Ham is laying the groundwork for College of Design students to pursue promising new careers in animation, gaming, interaction, as well as fibers and soft construction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I strongly believe that this project will help our collective efforts in showing the type of cutting-edge and creative scholarship that is being produced by the College and the Department of Art + Design,” says Ham, whose previous VR project titled I Am a Man<\/em><\/a> drew widespread acclaim by allowing users to immerse themselves in the movement during the Memphis sanitation workers strike of 1968 and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s assassination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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