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.

Italian Ministry of Youth Policy

Through a program sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Youth Policy, REMAP and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television ...

Interpretive Media Laboratory

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

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 ...

Site, Set, and Media: Puppeted Architecture

This two-quarter course explored the theory and manifestations of the design of physically malleable scenery that is site-specific and incorporates ...

Mobile HiFi Tours

Mobile HiFi Tours were created in collaboration with Public Matters, the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, and the Pilipino Workers ...

Skyline Traces

Skyline Traces was a mobile application developed as part of REMAP's IMLab partnership with California State Parks. Using GPS tracking, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Transmedia Hollywood 2012

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

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, ...

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 ...

Ambient Informatics

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

…Two, Three, Many Guevaras

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

A Most Favored Nation

A Most Favored Nation was an original immersive performance using augmented reality, set in the world of the Amazon Studios ...

Memoria Barrial

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

Recoding Innovation

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

Navilandia AL SUR !

Navilandia AL SUR ! comprised Christmas decorations distributed and tracked throughout Buenos Aires. Found in 2001 when Fabian Wagmister acquired the abandoned ...

Fahrenheit 451

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

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 ...