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.

Performance for Virtual Environments & Production Practice in Theater with Emerging Technologies

Two undergraduate courses conduced online during the Covid-19 pandemic, in parallel, explored performance and production techniques for remote virtual environments ...

Bicicletas Blancas

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

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 ...

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 ...

IMLab LASHP Trails App

As an extension of the ongoing collaboration between UCLA REMAP and California State Parks, the Interpretive Media Laboratory (IMLab) has been ...

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 ...

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) ...

Gone with the Wind Remixed

REMAP provided technical and production support for the development and staging of original multimedia performances inspired by critical examination of ...

Blogger Project

Written and co-directed by Tony-award winning director and UCLA theater professor Mel Shapiro, the Blogger Project interweaved elements from Homer’s ...

Skyline Traces

Skyline Traces was a mobile application developed as part of REMAP's IMLab partnership with California State Parks. Using GPS tracking, it ...

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 ...

Transmedia Hollywood 2012

REMAP collaborated on the creation of a sculpture which visualized creative labor and its relationship to gross domestic product (GDP) ...

Riddles of the Sphinx

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Acting for Virtual Environments

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

hamletmachine

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

Navilandia AL SUR !

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

cheLA

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