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.

cheLA

Centro Hipermediatico Experimental Latinoamericano (cheLA) is a research center dedicated to experimentation with converging forms of art and technology, and ...

Behind the Bars

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

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), ...

Search for Global Song

Search for Global Song is a short experimental cinema piece currently in post-production. An algorithmically evolving online film, it tells ...

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, ...

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 ...

Beacon

REMAP led the design and installation of six interactive lanterns in the window of UCLA Family Commons. The lanterns had ...

Iliad Project

This multidisciplinary project developed techniques to incorporate its audience's demographic data into its story details, thus creating dynamic text. The ...

Macbett

A mainstage production of Ionesco's political and Shakespearian satire, Macbett was directed by graduate student Adam Shive for this MFA ...

Beloved Mnemosyne

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

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 ...

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, ...

Quartieri della Memoria

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

UCLA TFT Future Storytelling Summer Institute 2019

From September 9-21, 2019, UCLA TFT’s Future Storytelling Summer Institute (FSSI) brought together a multidisciplinary group of graduate students, faculty, ...

REMAP/RITL Workshop for Digital Media, Theatre & Design

The REMAP/RITL Workshop for Digital Media, Theatre and Design in Formello, Rome, explored how emerging technologies, materials, and media practices ...

Bodies for a Global Brain

The pilot episode of Bodies for a Global Brain was one of two productions resulting from UCLA School of Theater, Film ...

ludiCity

ludiCity was a situationist-inspired participatory experience/performance created by Fabian Wagmister and Jeff Burke that used mobile technology to promote collective ...

Skyline Traces

Skyline Traces was a mobile application developed as part of REMAP's IMLab partnership with California State Parks. Using GPS tracking, it ...

Wellspring

Created by REMAP's Jeff Burke and Fabian Wagmister, in collaboration with artists Michael Parker and Troy Rounseville, Wellspring is an original, digitally interactive ...

Personal Environmental Impact Report

PEIR, the Personal Environmental Impact Report, was an online tool that allowed mobile phones to explore and share how users ...