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.

Engaged Media Production Workshop

Urban space and media space are merging in complex, intriguing and problematic ways, suggesting new forms of personal and collective ...

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 ...

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 ...

cheLA

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

Interpretive Media Laboratory

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

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 ...

Einstein’s Dreams

UCLA REMAP and the Buenos Aires-based company Cuerda Productions collaboratively experimented with the use of media in aerial performance at ...

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 ...

Riddles of the Sphinx

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

Bicicletas Blancas

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

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

An Adaptation of Macbeth

An Adaptation of Macbeth is an original multimedia theatrical work that has arisen out of the Rhodope International Theater Laboratory (RITL) ...

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, ...

Science Through Technology Enhanced Play (STEP)

The National Science Foundation-supported Science Through Technology Enhanced Play (STEP) project is investigating how socio-dramatic play among elementary school students can ...

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 ...

Beloved Mnemosyne

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

Building Virtual Worlds

This class explored the use of virtual worlds in live performance. In particular, it focused on their intersection with the ...

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 ...