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.

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 ...

Personal Environmental Impact Report

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

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 ...

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 ...

OpenPTrack

An open source software project led by UCLA REMAP and Open Perception (Point Cloud Library), OpenPTrack originated to create a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

Rhodope International Theatre Laboratory (RITL)

For eight summers, REMAP contributed to a professional residency and conservatory training program in a mythological birthplace of Orpheus and ...

Fahrenheit 451

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

Interpretive Media Laboratory

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

Entropy Bound

Entropy Bound is a full-length comedy by REMAP's Jeff Burke and Jared J. Stein currently in development, intending to fuse ...

Bridging Media on Cultural Sites

Bridging Media on Cultural Sites: the Colosseum as Media for Non-linear Storytelling used video streaming, HTML5 technology, and mobile phones ...

Bicicletas Blancas

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

Future Storytelling Studio

Co-taught by J. Ed Araiza (head of UCLA's MFA acting program) and REMAP Director Jeff Burke, this two-quarter, multidisciplinary studio-style ...

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 ...

Iliad Project

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

Macbett

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

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 ...

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 ...