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.

PedaLúdico

The PedaLúdico Laboratory began in 2017 as a three-month research-arts residency program at the Centro Hipermediatico Experimental Latinoamericano (cheLA) in Buenos Aires ...

Bridging Media on Cultural Sites

Bridging Media on Cultural Sites: the Colosseum as Media for Non-linear Storytelling used video streaming, HTML5 technology, and mobile phones ...

Interactive Multimedia Authoring

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advanced Technology for Cinematography

Advanced Technology for Cinematography (ATC) was a multidisciplinary research effort by the UCLA Departments of Electrical Engineering and Film, Television ...

hamletmachine

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

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 ...

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 Virgin and the Unicorn

This workshop theatre production based on Leonardo Da Vinci’s version of the classic myth was created by Alexandar Iliev (Bulgarian ...

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 ...

Future Storytelling Summer Institute 2014

From July 17 to August 1, 2014, a multidisciplinary group of graduate and advanced undergraduate students from the UCLA School ...

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 ...

Recoding Innovation

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

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 ...

Ambient Informatics

In most cities, even though sidewalks are occupied by pedestrians throughout the day, they are neglected spaces. People waiting at ...

ImageAbility

ImageAbility was an interactive installation and participatory mapping tool at the Chiparaki Cultural Civic Computing Center adjacent to the Los Angeles ...