DAVA educates and conducts research on the artistic, technical and scientific aspects of media production as well as other aspects of audiovisual production: image, sound, lighting, music, photography, film and television, scriptwriting and dramaturgy. This we call audiovisuality.
Dalarna Audiovisual Academy (DAVA) studies both new media, such as social media, web productions and mobile media, and traditional forms of media, such as film, newspapers and TV. Key concepts include production networks, digital innovation, cultural work and knowledge processes. DAVA conducts research, collaborates with external actors and offers undergraduate programmes in the academic fields of screenwriting, film, audiovisual production, and music and sound production. Mediehuset in Falun is the principal DIVA location.
Our university programmes and courses in film, music and media combine creativity with technical and theoretical specialisation. Here you can develop your ability to tell stories using sound, image and words, whether you’re interested in working with music and sound design, film production, television and social media or screenwriting.
You can study from the level of Bachelor’s to Master’s (one year), in each case acquiring both artistic and practical skills for a future in the fast-changing industries of media and culture. We prepare our students to work as, for example, film producers, screenwriters, sound designers, music producers, TV producers and photographers. The academic specialisation of our programmes and courses provides you with the conditions to develop skills and readiness for new roles and changes in future media production, even those we cannot yet foresee. They also incorporate a strong connection between creativity, modern media technology and the professional world you will enter after graduation.
Kultur, medier & design - Högskolan Dalarna (information in Swedish)
This research group explores new media, such as social media, web productions and mobile media, as well as traditional forms of media, such as film, newspapers and TV.
Research – audiovisual studies (Dalarna University)
What can we learn about the processes of change in music from studying Calle Jularbo and gammeldansen? Calle Jularbo (1893-1966) was a well-known musician, composer and artist during the initial period of popular music and the music industry. His influence lasted throughout the 1900s.
Contact: Daniel Fredriksson, dfr@du.se and Totte Mattsson, som@du.se
BEAM is a research project that aims to explore how audiovisual art in public spaces can invite and stimulate interaction between people and their material surroundings – in this case, a small city and, more specifically, the city of Borlänge and its centre. In recent years, Borlänge has experienced a sharp decline due to the closure and relocation of businesses, such as food and clothing stores.
The project includes artistic research inspired by Willim’s art probes, in parallel with Steindorf’s experimental sound walks. It aims to design audiovisual installations in efforts to develop new methods for audiovisual research. All of this has close ties to autoethnographic research, where such concepts as identity, place, urbanity and materiality are the focus.
Questions about how the death of a city centre, its revitalisation and the cultural identification of a place can inspire the creation of audiovisual art are explored using light and sound in combination with the city’s surroundings as artistic material.
Also explored is the way in which the audiovisual installations stimulate interaction with space. The interaction with the artwork and the residents of the city is also explored. The project received financing from Dalarna University and the municipality of Borlänge (2023-2024).
Contact: Tanja Jörgensen, tjr@du.se
Our project explores new methods for musical interaction in real time between individuals. Our goal is to demonstrate that a distributed performance can create a sense of immersion in a merged physical and virtual reality. This is a collaborative project with Spotify, Ericsson, Teengage Engineering and KMH.
IRESAP, Kungliga musikhögskolan (kmh.se)
Contact: Rikard Lindell, rli@du.se
Nordfilm is a network of Nordic and Baltic media education institutes and schools that work together through student and teacher exchanges. Nordfilm is financed by Nordplus, which is the collaborative programme for education of the Nordic Council of Ministers. In 2021, Dalarna University joined the network, which has since then expanded to eleven schools. This has enabled students from Dalarna University’s Media House (Mediehuset) to attend festivals, workshops and summer courses and our teachers to instruct at other Nordfilm schools.
