Gustav Kvaal

Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design
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Norway °1968
research interests: illustration, illustration techniques, animation, editorial design, virtual reality
affiliation: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design University of Bergen
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Gustav Kvaal i samarbeid med Torkell Bernsen

 Inside the Narrative

  

The research project, Inside the Narrative, derives its name and focus from the narrative point of view of the VR media. The project has its academic position in visual communication at the Faculty of Arts, Music and Design at the University of Bergen. The project's connection to professional fields such as illustration, animation and graphic design gives us a unique opportunity to help bring forth new perspectives and voices in VR storytelling that may  differ from, for example, the engineering field, the computer games industry, journalism, medicine or the film industry. Knowledge from subject areas related to picture books, animation, editorial design, typography, or interaction design are examples of possible inputs into the exploration of VR technology's potential for these fields.

research

research expositions

  • Inside the Narrative (last edited: 2024) author(s): Gustav Kvaal, Torkell Bernsen This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    The aim of this artistic research project is to create an illustrated VR documentary experience that narrates the story of a time witness from the second world war in Bodø, Norway. The project explores questions concerning visual storytelling and ethics in the encounter between the VR-audience, interviewed subjects and the audiovisual spatial design. Artistic and qualitative research methods have been employed to explore how different visual modes and contexts alter the experience of narrator and narrative in a media format characterized by its ability to place the viewer in a state of immersion, intimacy, and a sense of presence. Theoretically, this study is situated in an artistic landscape connected to media theory, journalism, ethics and visual communication. Concepts such as postmemory, media witness ethics, with the so-called risk of improper distance and considerations around the term distant others, are relevant for the reflection associated with the project.
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  • Inside the Narrative In the shadow of war (last edited: 2023) author(s): Gustav Kvaal This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Within VR, I am now working on a project on the bombing of Bodø in 1940. The project will go into the depths of what a single event can have of significance and is intended to provide transferable learning to the current situation. The VR project will, with time witnesses, take us back to the bombing of Bodø during World War II. Through the use of photographic geometry, volumetric capture, illustrations, 2d animation, interviews of witnesses and historians, music and sound, we want to give the visitor a close and informative experience of a historical event.
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  • PORTFOLIO (last edited: 2020) author(s): Gustav Kvaal This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    PORTFOLIO GUSTAV KVAAL https://gustavkvaal.myportfolio.com/work
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works

  • Snowys jul (08/04/2019)
    Art object: Movie, Kvaal Production as, artist(s)/author(s): Gustav Kvaal
    It looks like it will be a very sad Christmas for the little puppy Snowy this year. After loosing both his mum and his home, the lost little puppy is now all alone in the world. On Christmas Eve, the two children, Petter and Thea find the freezing little puppy alone in the woods. They now have to find a nice new home for Snowy quickly, as Christmas day is just around the corner.
  • The old man (08/04/2019)
    Art object: Movie, Kvaal Production as, artist(s)/author(s): Gustav Kvaal
    Dette er historien om den amorøse gamle mannen og hans virkelighetsflukt. Vi blir med ned i hans badekar og inn i hans drømmeverden. Han er ikke alene. Med store øyne svømmer den gamle mannen innover i dette "drømmenes teater". Uten å selv merke det glir han lengre og lengre inn i sine egne drømmers verden.