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.

Performance for Virtual Environments & Production Practice in Theater with Emerging Technologies

Two undergraduate courses conduced online during the Covid-19 pandemic, in parallel, explored performance and production techniques for remote virtual environments ...

Eco-Interns/Earth Day Latino

Twenty-five Latinx students gathered on the first weekend of April 2011 to engage in a cultural media project with Fabian ...

IMLab LASHP Trails App

As an extension of the ongoing collaboration between UCLA REMAP and California State Parks, the Interpretive Media Laboratory (IMLab) has been ...

Location-based Storytelling

Involving research and hands-on production, this course focused on creating non-linear cinema for mobile devices. With support from Nokia Research ...

Memoria Barrial

Memoria Barrial was an installation in the Buenos Aires Subway created by Fabian Wagmister, with technology conceived by Jeff Burke, ...

Acting for Virtual Environments

This course focuses on synthesizing actors' gestures, actions and, ultimately, characterizations into creating scene work for motion capture and virtual ...

Interactive Multimedia Authoring

This seminar-studio course introduced the concepts and specifics of physically interactive media environments, with an emphasis on how they relate ...

Invocation and Interference

Invocation and Interference was a multi-screen environment that explored the intimate relationship between two modes of communication as one would travel through ...

South@North@South (sanas)

As an extension of the long-term, evolving international collaboration between the UC Digital Arts Research Network (UC DARNet) and the ...

IMLab Summer Workshop 2012

For the summer of 2012, UCLA REMAP teamed with Public Matters, an LA-based nonprofit dedicated to creativity and civic engagement, to ...

Laboratorio de Interactividad Corporal

REMAP and Open Perception's OpenPTrack Version 2 (Gnocchi) is now being used for the Laboratorio de Interactividad Corporal (Body Interactivity ...

Quartieri della Memoria

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

Graduate Certificate in Emerging Technologies for Performance

The UCLA Department of Theater and UCLA REMAP have established the Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Emerging Technologies for Performance. Beginning ...

Promoting Learning though Annotation of Embodiment (PLAE)

The National Science Foundation-supported Promoting Learning though Annotation of Embodiment (PLAE) project builds on the ongoing Science Through Technology Enhanced Play ...

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), ...

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 ...

Interactive Digital Media Showcases

Since the beginning of the 2013-14 academic year, REMAP researchers and artists have been supporting the work of students in ...

Behind the Bars

In response to the history of physical and intellectual oppression in Latin America, Fabian Wagmister created a confrontational media space ...

Marty Sklar Entertainment Innovation Fellowship

UCLA REMAP is proud to announce the Marty Sklar Entertainment Innovation Fellowship, established in 2020, which will support high-achieving students ...

Mobile HiFi Tours

Mobile HiFi Tours were created in collaboration with Public Matters, the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, and the Pilipino Workers ...