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.

Einstein’s Dreams

UCLA REMAP and the Buenos Aires-based company Cuerda Productions collaboratively experimented with the use of media in aerial performance at ...

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 ...

Transmedia Hollywood 2012

REMAP collaborated on the creation of a sculpture which visualized creative labor and its relationship to gross domestic product (GDP) ...

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 ...

Kolo (and Nebesko)

Kolo was a Java-based middleware for interactive artworks, a framework for the collection of sensor data and the control of ...

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 ...

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 ...

hamletmachine

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three Modern Noh Plays

Using the Ogre-based 3D engine created for Homer in Cyberspace, REMAP created the projection design for a very different theatrical ...

Survey of Emerging Technologies and Their Uses in Live Performance

This joint graduate-undergraduate course is surveying major emerging technologies and their potential uses within and impact on live performance---pulling from, ...

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 ...

Marty Sklar Entertainment Innovation Fellowship

UCLA REMAP is proud to announce the Marty Sklar Entertainment Innovation Fellowship, established in 2020, which will support high-achieving students ...

Eco-Interns/Earth Day Latino

Twenty-five Latinx students gathered on the first weekend of April 2011 to engage in a cultural media project with Fabian ...

Advanced Technology for Cinematography

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

Quartieri della Memoria

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

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), ...

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 ...