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.

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 ...

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 ...

Riddles of the Sphinx

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

cheLA

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

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 ...

ludiCity

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

IMLab Summer Workshop 2012

For the summer of 2012, UCLA REMAP teamed with Public Matters, an LA-based nonprofit dedicated to creativity and civic engagement, to ...

Engaged Media Production Workshop

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

Innovation, Culture, and Creativity

REMAP is a key participant in a 2024 grant from the National Science Foundation to explore how to better support ...

Grace Plains

As one of two productions resulting from TFT's participation in Google's Glass Creative Collective and the corresponding two-semester course, Location-Based ...

ICN-Enabled Secure Edge Networking with Augmented Reality

Today’s Internet operates with the address-based TCP/IP protocol architecture developed 40 years ago, which greatly limits the full promises of ...

Laboratorio de Interactividad Corporal

REMAP and Open Perception's OpenPTrack Version 2 (Gnocchi) is now being used for the Laboratorio de Interactividad Corporal (Body Interactivity ...

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 ...

Interactive Science Through Technology Enhanced Play (iSTEP)

The National Science Foundation-supported Interactive Science Through Technology Enhanced Play (iSTEP) project builds on the ongoing Science Through Technology Enhanced ...

Time and Time Again…

An immersive, interactive media installation, Time & Time Again... explored intersections of technological dependency and cultural identity. The piece integrated sensing technologies, ...

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 ...

Biondi vs. Morel

This installation by REMAP's Fabian Wagmister established interactive relations between the processes and developments of science and technology and the ...

Macbett

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

Site, Set, and Media: Puppeted Architecture

This two-quarter course explored the theory and manifestations of the design of physically malleable scenery that is site-specific and incorporates ...

Remapping LA: Hollywould

In Remapping LA: Hollywould, led by UCLA REMAP, the community around Hollywood Boulevard investigated and articulated their interpretation of the ...