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.

Interpretive Media Laboratory

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

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 ...

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 ...

Named Data Networking

REMAP researchers are contributing to the ongoing work of the Named Data Networking project (NDN). A multiple-institution collaboration supported by the ...

Los Atlantis

Los Atlantis was an experimental stage piece created by J. Ed Araiza (head of UCLA's MFA acting program), REMAP Director ...

UCLA TFT Future Storytelling Summer Institute 2018

From July 9 to 28, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s 2018 Future Storytelling Summer Institute brought together ...

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 ...

Riddles of the Sphinx

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

CiBiC (Civic Bicycle Commuting)

The REMAP-led Civic Bicycle Commuting project (CiBiC) is launching a community-driven mobile app, along with a participatory media cartography, designed ...

MIAS Digital Portfolio Course

This Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS) seminar, taught by REMAP's Jeff Burke, explored technologies, design approaches, and motivations for creating ...

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 ...

Recoding Innovation

Recoding Innovation was a research project sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create original, short-form multimedia documentaries that ...

NUS-MDA SHAPE (Singapore)

In the interest of bringing fresh perspectives and fostering international relationships, REMAP has been hosting interns from Singapore---through the Singapore ...

UCLA/Cisco Metropolitan WiFi Research Network

With the support of Cisco, and in collaboration with California State Parks, REMAP installed a 25-node wireless network covering the ...

Remapping LA

Remapping LA was a long-term research effort that engaged urban communities in the design of technological systems that express their ...

Cybermural: Interactive Digital Mural at Los Angeles State Historic Park

Funded through a National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER), the Interpretive Media Laboratory (IMLab) partnership between UCLA ...

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 ...

Survey of Emerging Technologies and Their Uses in Live Performance

This joint graduate-undergraduate course is surveying major emerging technologies and their potential uses within and impact on live performance---pulling from, ...

Italian Ministry of Youth Policy

Through a program sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Youth Policy, REMAP and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television ...

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), ...