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.

A Most Favored Nation

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

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 ...

Acting for Virtual Environments

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

Ecce Homology

Ecce Homology was an immersive interactive visualization of genomics data based on Chinese calligraphy. It was created through a unique ...

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 was a stage adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s science fiction classic, performed as a student workshop production at UCLA ...

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 ...

Iliad Project

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

Interactive Multimedia Authoring

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

Contemporary Artificial Intelligence in Live Performance

This graduate course introduces contemporary artificial intelligence techniques with a specific focus on their current and potential applications in live ...

Macbett

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

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 ...

Beloved Mnemosyne

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

cheLA

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Mobile HiFi Tours

Mobile HiFi Tours were created in collaboration with Public Matters, the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, and the Pilipino Workers ...

Cross-disciplinary Scholars in Science and Technology

REMAP has been participating in the UCLA Cross-disciplinary Scholars in Science and Technology (CSST) program, hosting stellar undergraduates in computer science ...