UCLA REMAP

The Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance (REMAP) is a joint effort of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) and Samueli School of Engineering.

REMAP bridges the world-class faculty, staff and students of TFT and Samueli to explore new enriching cultural forms and empowering social situations enabled by the thoughtful interweaving of engineering, the arts and community development. The Center provides a uniquely positioned creative environment that embraces and promotes people, projects and investigations that can have resonant, long-term impact on the relationships among culture and technology.

January 16, 2024 update: We have launched the Innovation, Culture, and Creativity project with a $1.3M award from the National Science Foundation. Please consider applying for workshop funding by February 16, 2024!

November 22, 2023 update: The Call for Applications for the Marty Sklar Entertainment Innovation Fellowship 2024 is posted – applications due December 15. [Applications have closed and fellowships will be announced in late January.]

A rotating selection of REMAP’s current and past work is below. Please also browse the categories above to learn about specific areas.

Biondi vs. Morel

This installation by REMAP's Fabian Wagmister established interactive relations between the processes and developments of science and technology and the ...

Future Storytelling Studio

Co-taught by J. Ed Araiza (head of UCLA's MFA acting program) and REMAP Director Jeff Burke, this two-quarter, multidisciplinary studio-style ...

Beloved Mnemosyne

In an environment of interactive sculptural objects and water features, visitors, as they approached or touched the installations, heard seamlessly ...

Location-Based and Audience-Aware Storytelling

This two-semester workshop-seminar guided students to conceptualize, author, produce and distribute "next generation" experiences. Key enabling technologies---such as wearable computing, ...

The Color of Dissonance

REMAP's Jeff Burke led a workshop on the use of media in performance during a residency at Southwestern University (SU), ...

Interpretive Media Laboratory

The Interpretive Media Laboratory (IMLab) is a partnership between UCLA REMAP and California State Parks that began in 2011---to conceive ...

A Most Favored Nation

A Most Favored Nation was an original immersive performance using augmented reality, set in the world of the Amazon Studios ...

Participatory Sensing

REMAP contributed to "Participatory Sensing" research through collaborations with UCLA's National Science Foundation-supported Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)---helping to ...

Cross-disciplinary Scholars in Science and Technology

REMAP has been participating in the UCLA Cross-disciplinary Scholars in Science and Technology (CSST) program, hosting stellar undergraduates in computer science ...

TouchDesigner+NDN Integration

REMAP is pursuing new approaches to networked video using Named Data Networking (NDN). It is using several of its own ...

Riddles of the Sphinx

This video installation by Peter Wollen, Kevin Fisher, and Jeff Burke explored the materiality of digital compression and analog film, ...

Three Modern Noh Plays

Using the Ogre-based 3D engine created for Homer in Cyberspace, REMAP created the projection design for a very different theatrical ...

Contemporary Artificial Intelligence in Live Performance

This graduate course introduces contemporary artificial intelligence techniques with a specific focus on their current and potential applications in live ...

aboutface/Faces

A web-based installation created for the Non-Fiction/Digital Media Showcase at the the 23rd annual UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television ...

Kolo (and Nebesko)

Kolo was a Java-based middleware for interactive artworks, a framework for the collection of sensor data and the control of ...

Quartieri della Memoria

Quartieri della memoria was an artwork for public spaces created under the direction of Alessandro Marianantoni. It focused on oral ...

hamletmachine

hamletmachine was an interactive sound piece by Jeff Burke, based on Heiner Muller’s play Hamletmachine, a deconstruction of Shakespeare and ...

Junction/Juncture

As part of the long-term Remapping LA effort, an outdoor interactive digital mural was designed and installed in the Los Angeles State ...

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 was a stage adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s science fiction classic, performed as a student workshop production at UCLA ...

Rhodope International Theatre Laboratory (RITL)

For eight summers, REMAP contributed to a professional residency and conservatory training program in a mythological birthplace of Orpheus and ...