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.

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 ...

Homer in Cyberspace

Homer in Cyberspace was a musical first performed at UCLA in 2008. The modern update to Homer's Odyssey was written by ...

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 ...

Bicicletas Blancas

As part of the 2017 Noviembre Electrónico Festival at the San Martín Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, REMAP's Fabian Wagmister created ...

Los Atlantis

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

Navilandia AL SUR !

Navilandia AL SUR ! comprised Christmas decorations distributed and tracked throughout Buenos Aires. Found in 2001 when Fabian Wagmister acquired the abandoned ...

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 ...

Ethics Education for Participatory Sensing

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Ethics Education for Participatory Sensing project explored challenges related to facilitating ...

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 ...

hamletmachine

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

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 ...

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 ...

A Most Favored Nation

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

Primer/Lem

Primer/Lem was an original puppet, object, and multimedia performance piece created by Matt Acheson, Jeff Burke, Tom Lee, Jonathan Snipes, and Jared J. Stein. The ...

Acting for Virtual Environments

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

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 ...

Personal Environmental Impact Report

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

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 ...

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), ...

Remapping LA

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