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.

Homer in Cyberspace

Homer in Cyberspace was a musical first performed at UCLA in 2008. The modern update to Homer's Odyssey was written by ...

Biondi vs. Morel

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

The Virgin and the Unicorn

This workshop theatre production based on Leonardo Da Vinci’s version of the classic myth was created by Alexandar Iliev (Bulgarian ...

Navilandia AL SUR !

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

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

NUS-MDA SHAPE (Singapore)

In the interest of bringing fresh perspectives and fostering international relationships, REMAP has been hosting interns from Singapore---through the Singapore ...

Recoding Innovation

Recoding Innovation was a research project sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create original, short-form multimedia documentaries that ...

Iliad Project

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

cheLA

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

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 ...

PedaLúdico

The PedaLúdico Laboratory began in 2017 as a three-month research-arts residency program at the Centro Hipermediatico Experimental Latinoamericano (cheLA) in Buenos Aires ...

ludiCity

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

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 ...

Advanced Technology for Cinematography

Advanced Technology for Cinematography (ATC) was a multidisciplinary research effort by the UCLA Departments of Electrical Engineering and Film, Television ...

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 ...

hamletmachine

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

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 ...

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 ...