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.

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, ...

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 ...

Bodies for a Global Brain

The pilot episode of Bodies for a Global Brain was one of two productions resulting from UCLA School of Theater, Film ...

Beacon

REMAP led the design and installation of six interactive lanterns in the window of UCLA Family Commons. The lanterns had ...

Building Virtual Worlds

This class explored the use of virtual worlds in live performance. In particular, it focused on their intersection with the ...

Grace Plains

As one of two productions resulting from TFT's participation in Google's Glass Creative Collective and the corresponding two-semester course, Location-Based ...

Biondi vs. Morel

This installation by REMAP's Fabian Wagmister established interactive relations between the processes and developments of science and technology and the ...

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 ...

Navilandia AL SUR !

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

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 ...

Out the Window

Out the Window was an innovative initiative that engages youth and community-based artists in writing and producing impactful videos and ...

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 ...

Remapping LA

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

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 ...

Graduate Certificate in Emerging Technologies for Performance

The UCLA Department of Theater and UCLA REMAP have established the Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Emerging Technologies for Performance. Beginning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Memoria Barrial

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

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 ...

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, ...