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.

OpenPTrack

An open source software project led by UCLA REMAP and Open Perception (Point Cloud Library), OpenPTrack originated to create a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recoding Innovation

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

cheLA

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

Future Storytelling Studio

Co-taught by J. Ed Araiza (head of UCLA's MFA acting program) and REMAP Director Jeff Burke, this two-quarter, multidisciplinary studio-style ...

hamletmachine

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

Kolo (and Nebesko)

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

Transmedia Hollywood 2012

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

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 ...

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, ...

Cybermural: Interactive Digital Mural at Los Angeles State Historic Park

Funded through a National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER), the Interpretive Media Laboratory (IMLab) partnership between UCLA ...

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) ...

Future Storytelling Summer Institute 2014

From July 17 to August 1, 2014, a multidisciplinary group of graduate and advanced undergraduate students from the UCLA School ...

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 ...

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 ...