In July 2020, a multidisciplinary group of graduate students, faculty, staff, and guest mentors investigated how shared virtual environments can support “next generation narrative.” As with the previous two editions of FSSI, the 2020 Institute focused on creating a resonant storytelling experience centered on social impact themes—inspiring students to illuminate the human condition, inspire social change, and make a difference in the world—using emerging technologies: augmented reality in … [Read more...] about UCLA TFT Future Storytelling Summer Institute 2020 (Remote Edition)
Workshops, Institutes, Seminars
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, staff, and guest mentors to investigate how social impact storytelling can incorporate contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. As with the 2018 session, which used AR to bring audiences into a fantasy world as apprentices preparing to fight for their identities amid border and environmental crises, the 2019 Institute … [Read more...] about UCLA TFT Future Storytelling Summer Institute 2019
UCLA TFT Future Storytelling Summer Institute 2018
From July 9 to 28, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s 2018 Future Storytelling Summer Institute brought together a multidisciplinary group of graduate students, faculty, staff, and distinguished guest artists/mentors to investigate storytelling in augmented reality (AR) and explore the unique possibilities it offers as a platform for social impact entertainment. The guiding question, at the intersection of research and practice, for the Institute was: What makes … [Read more...] about UCLA TFT Future Storytelling Summer Institute 2018
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 of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) explored new forms of storytelling and performance using virtual production, motion capture, and dynamic design tools. Each day, they received instruction in cutting-edge technology, and applied these skills to collaborative projects. Each evening, they rehearsed these works-in-progress while creating media at a … [Read more...] about Future Storytelling Summer Institute 2014
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 run a six-week workshop for Los Angeles high school students. An initiative of REMAP and California State Parks' Interpretive Media Laboratory (IMLab), with support from UCLA’s Center for Embedded Network Sensing (CENS), the program guided students to research the Los Angeles State Historic Park (LASHP), IMLab's "living laboratory" near Downtown Los Angeles, and … [Read more...] about IMLab Summer Workshop 2012
Laboratorio de Interactividad Corporal
REMAP and Open Perception's OpenPTrack Version 2 (Gnocchi) is now being used for the Laboratorio de Interactividad Corporal (Body Interactivity Laboratory) at the Centro Hipermediatico Experimental Latinoamericano (cheLA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A joint initiative of REMAP and cheLA, the Lab got underway this past February, and is developing three new performance pieces that "explore concepts, implications and technologies of physical tracking and augmented reality," … [Read more...] about Laboratorio de Interactividad Corporal
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 the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT)'s Interactive Digital Media (IDM) concentration. Under the supervision of REMAP's Fabian Wagmister and Jeff Burke, the students have developed and built interactive installations as their thesis projects, premiering at UCLA and the Interpretive Media Laboratory (IMLab). Initially called the "Non-Fiction/Digital Media … [Read more...] about Interactive Digital Media Showcases
REMAP/RITL Workshop for Digital Media, Theatre & Design
The REMAP/RITL Workshop for Digital Media, Theatre and Design in Formello, Rome, explored how emerging technologies, materials, and media practices can provide new theatrical languages for stage designers and theatre-makers. A set of technology platforms and tools were chosen for their potential impact on scenography in its broadest sense, and their connection to consumer and industrial technologies that shape our lives. Technologies included Touchdesigner, Max/MSP, and common sensors. A set of … [Read more...] about REMAP/RITL Workshop for Digital Media, Theatre & Design
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 hosted 25 top students from Italy working at the intersection of visual language and technology, including screenwriting, cinematography, set design, video direction, post production, and computer science. A small group were in residence for four months working with REMAP to conceive, research, and prototype original interactive multimedia work. A larger group, in residence … [Read more...] about Italian Ministry of Youth Policy
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 and engineering from China, and involving them in multidisciplinary research for REMAP projects. 2009-present. … [Read more...] about Cross-disciplinary Scholars in Science and Technology
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), assisting the Theater Department in developing a media-rich production concept for an original operetta based on the relationship between W. Kandinsky, A. Schoenberg, and G. Munter. The piece was co-written by SU professors Sergio Costola, Jason Hoogerhyde, and Kimberly Smith. The show's projection design, by student Duncan Alexander, went on to win the 2008-2009 Austin … [Read more...] about The Color of Dissonance
Engaged Media Production Workshop
Urban space and media space are merging in complex, intriguing and problematic ways, suggesting new forms of personal and collective expression and new production processes. The convergence of media-gathering technologies, Wi-Fi transmission, urban sensing, mobile devices, social computing, and interpretive media databases makes the creation of locative, collective, contextual and engaged media experiences possible. Media-makers become media architects, media works become media systems, and … [Read more...] about Engaged Media Production Workshop
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 Western theatre & drama on the Greek-Bulgarian border. Based at the Rhodope Drama Theatre (RDT) in Smolyan, Bulgaria, the Lab brought together artists from around the world for intensive training in performance forms and collaborations built around parallels in global mythology. REMAP artist-researchers provided demonstrations and hands-on … [Read more...] about Rhodope International Theatre Laboratory (RITL)
cheLA
Centro Hipermediatico Experimental Latinoamericano (cheLA) is a research center dedicated to experimentation with converging forms of art and technology, and the potential impact on Latin American cultures. The Center began as a collaboration between Fundación ExACTa of Argentina, the UCLA Program On Digital Cultures, and UCLA REMAP. REMAP artist-researchers have continuously collaborated with cheLA, and with artists in residence at cheLA's complex, such as the aerial performance company Cuerda … [Read more...] about cheLA