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.

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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

UCLA TFT Future Storytelling Summer Institute 2020 (Remote Edition)

In July 2020, a multidisciplinary group of graduate students, faculty, staff, and guest mentors investigated how shared virtual environments can ...

ImageAbility

ImageAbility was an interactive installation and participatory mapping tool at the Chiparaki Cultural Civic Computing Center adjacent to the Los Angeles ...

Location-Based and Audience-Aware Storytelling

This two-semester workshop-seminar guided students to conceptualize, author, produce and distribute "next generation" experiences. Key enabling technologies---such as wearable computing, ...

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 ...

Bicicletas Blancas

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

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 ...

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 ...

Named Data Networking

REMAP researchers are contributing to the ongoing work of the Named Data Networking project (NDN). A multiple-institution collaboration supported by the ...

Illuminator

The Illuminator was a sensor network-based intelligent light control system for entertainment and media production, created as a collaboration between ...

Interpretive Media Laboratory

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

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 ...

Location-based Storytelling

Involving research and hands-on production, this course focused on creating non-linear cinema for mobile devices. With support from Nokia Research ...

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 ...

CiBiC (Civic Bicycle Commuting)

The REMAP-led Civic Bicycle Commuting project (CiBiC) is launching a community-driven mobile app, along with a participatory media cartography, designed ...

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 ...

UCLA/Cisco Metropolitan WiFi Research Network

With the support of Cisco, and in collaboration with California State Parks, REMAP installed a 25-node wireless network covering the ...

Biondi vs. Morel

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