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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Riddles of the Sphinx

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

Kolo (and Nebesko)

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Skyline Traces

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

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 ...

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 ...

Einstein’s Dreams

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Performance for Virtual Environments & Production Practice in Theater with Emerging Technologies

Two undergraduate courses conduced online during the Covid-19 pandemic, in parallel, explored performance and production techniques for remote virtual environments ...

Remapping LA

Remapping LA was a long-term research effort that engaged urban communities in the design of technological systems that express their ...

cheLA

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

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 ...