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.

Memoria Barrial

Memoria Barrial was an installation in the Buenos Aires Subway created by Fabian Wagmister, with technology conceived by Jeff Burke, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Invocation and Interference

Invocation and Interference was a multi-screen environment that explored the intimate relationship between two modes of communication as one would travel through ...

Advanced Technology for Cinematography

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

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ecce Homology

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

Remapping LA: Hollywould

In Remapping LA: Hollywould, led by UCLA REMAP, the community around Hollywood Boulevard investigated and articulated their interpretation of the ...

Personal Environmental Impact Report

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

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 ...

MIAS Digital Portfolio Course

This Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS) seminar, taught by REMAP's Jeff Burke, explored technologies, design approaches, and motivations for creating ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Quartieri della Memoria

Quartieri della memoria was an artwork for public spaces created under the direction of Alessandro Marianantoni. It focused on oral ...

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 ...

Promoting Learning though Annotation of Embodiment (PLAE)

The National Science Foundation-supported Promoting Learning though Annotation of Embodiment (PLAE) project builds on the ongoing Science Through Technology Enhanced Play ...

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 ...