Cultural Civic Computing

Created by REMAP's Jeff Burke and Fabian Wagmister, in collaboration with artists Michael Parker and Troy Rounseville, Wellspring is an original, digitally interactive sculpture that serves as the trailhead for the paths of the Interpretive Media Laboratory (IMLab)'s LASHP Trails App. A partnership between UCLA REMAP and California State Parks to conceive and prototype innovative approaches to interpretive technology for urban spaces, IMLab's "living laboratory" is the Los Angeles State … [Read more...] about Wellspring

Esteros del Ibera was an interactive installation in Buenos Aires that allowed groups of visitors to explore the landscape of the protected Ibera Wetlands in northwest Argentina. UCLA REMAP and Open Perception's OpenPTrack was used as the interface between the visitors' movements and the piece's media, enabling them to play through the point of view of individual animals. As individuals moved around the space, their perspectives followed as if moving through … [Read more...] about Esteros del Ibera

Navilandia AL SUR ! comprised Christmas decorations distributed and tracked throughout Buenos Aires. Found in 2001 when Fabian Wagmister acquired the abandoned warehouse that would become cheLA (Centro Hipermediatico Experimental Latinoamericano), the lights, wreaths, artificial trees, fake snow, and other ornaments were used by hospitals and nonprofits (arts, advocacy and student groups) to build resonant installations throughout the city. As the organizations took the materials and created … [Read more...] about Navilandia AL SUR !

Funded through a National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER), the Interpretive Media Laboratory (IMLab) partnership between UCLA REMAP and California State Parks was furthered with the creation of an interactive digital mural in Los Angeles State Historic Park (LASHP), while incorporating research in the learning sciences, and creating a prototype cyberlearning experience. The public space installation was an opportunity for informal learning … [Read more...] about Cybermural: Interactive Digital Mural at Los Angeles State Historic Park

REMAP collaborated on the creation of a sculpture which visualized creative labor and its relationship to gross domestic product (GDP) across the world. It had five intertwined strands of 50 lighting elements, each of which represented a country. They were arranged by GDP per capita, progressing from the so-called “global north” (Norway) to the “global south” (Ethiopia). The system faded through a decade of creative labor data from the UN for each country, for each of four categories: 1) … [Read more...] about Transmedia Hollywood 2012

Memoria Barrial was an installation in the Buenos Aires Subway created by Fabian Wagmister, with technology conceived by Jeff Burke, and built by Zening Qu, James Dellemonico, Taylor Fitz-Gibbon, Santiago Núñez, and others at REMAP and cheLA. The interactive, multi-projector installation explored a 3D virtual space containing media artifacts from the history of Parque Patricios, the neighborhood of the newest Subte station in Buenos Aires. The project stemmed from REMAP's ongoing work with … [Read more...] about Memoria Barrial

Remapping LA was a long-term research effort that engaged urban communities in the design of technological systems that express their cultures and identities, and is the predecessor of the Interpretive Media Laboratory (IMLab), an ongoing collaboration between UCLA REMAP and California State Parks. Remapping LA featured a decentralized approach to technological development, centered on three key principles: 1) participation of the general populace, with an emphasis on the involvement of Los … [Read more...] about Remapping LA

Skyline Traces was a mobile application developed as part of REMAP's IMLab partnership with California State Parks. Using GPS tracking, it created a window through which users could explore the hidden history of Los Angeles State Historic Park (LASHP) and its relationship to the City of Los Angeles. Visitors carried a tablet to explore historical and thematic connections among LASHP, its neighborhoods, and Los Angeles itself. For example, when visitors walked over landmarks now underground, the … [Read more...] about Skyline Traces

In Remapping LA: Hollywould, led by UCLA REMAP, the community around Hollywood Boulevard investigated and articulated their interpretation of the urban neighborhood’s physical, cultural and social identities, resulting in a showing at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Community organizations from the area collected geotagged, keyworded images, audio, and video---using cutting-edge technology, such as interpretive databases, online media, and mobile computing. These were fused … [Read more...] about Remapping LA: Hollywould

As part of the long-term Remapping LA effort, an outdoor interactive digital mural was designed and installed in the Los Angeles State Historic Park.  Junction/Juncture invited people to investigate and engage with Los Angeles history. The 60-foot wide projection, driven by original networked graphics software, responded to mobile text messages, the Metro train’s movement through the Sepulveda Dam, and traffic in the nearby streets---creating a dynamic display of image, video, sound, and … [Read more...] about Junction/Juncture

Quartieri della memoria was an artwork for public spaces created under the direction of Alessandro Marianantoni. It focused on oral memories and set up a theater of memory as a cultural rite in the audience’s mind. Rieti, a town in the center of Italy, was chosen as the project's case study---because of the way the relationship between its residents and public space changed due to economic policy. The pre-design phase consisted of cultural research on anthropological meanings, focussed on the … [Read more...] about Quartieri della Memoria

ImageAbility was an interactive installation and participatory mapping tool at the Chiparaki Cultural Civic Computing Center adjacent to the Los Angeles State Historic Park (LASHP) near Downtown Los Angeles. Part artwork and part tool for community investigation of the city, the goals were to foster dialogue, self-representation, and collective remembering and imagining alternative futures. ImageAbility used a pen sketch-based interface to explore a large database of media about Los Angeles. It … [Read more...] about ImageAbility