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.

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 ...

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 ...

Ecce Homology

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Riddles of the Sphinx

This video installation by Peter Wollen, Kevin Fisher, and Jeff Burke explored the materiality of digital compression and analog film, ...

Advanced Technology for Cinematography

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

Cross-disciplinary Scholars in Science and Technology

REMAP has been participating in the UCLA Cross-disciplinary Scholars in Science and Technology (CSST) program, hosting stellar undergraduates in computer science ...

Macbett

A mainstage production of Ionesco's political and Shakespearian satire, Macbett was directed by graduate student Adam Shive for this MFA ...

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, ...

Interactive Science Through Technology Enhanced Play (iSTEP)

The National Science Foundation-supported Interactive Science Through Technology Enhanced Play (iSTEP) project builds on the ongoing Science Through Technology Enhanced ...

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 ...

Junction/Juncture

As part of the long-term Remapping LA effort, an outdoor interactive digital mural was designed and installed in the Los Angeles State ...

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 ...

Einstein’s Dreams

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

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 ...

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 ...

Navilandia AL SUR !

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