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.

Fahrenheit 451

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

UCLA TFT Future Storytelling Summer Institute 2019

From September 9-21, 2019, UCLA TFT’s Future Storytelling Summer Institute (FSSI) brought together a multidisciplinary group of graduate students, faculty, ...

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 ...

…Two, Three, Many Guevaras

... two, three, many Guevaras is a digital multimedia database documentary by Fabian Wagmister that explores the legacy of Ernesto Che ...

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 ...

TouchDesigner+NDN Integration

REMAP is pursuing new approaches to networked video using Named Data Networking (NDN). It is using several of its own ...

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 ...

Advanced Technology for Cinematography

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

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 ...

Bicicletas Blancas

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

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, ...

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 ...

hamletmachine

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

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), ...

Iliad Project

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

Ambient Informatics

In most cities, even though sidewalks are occupied by pedestrians throughout the day, they are neglected spaces. People waiting at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remapping LA: Hollywould

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

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 ...