Live Peformance

Entropy Bound is a full-length comedy by REMAP's Jeff Burke and Jared J. Stein currently in development, intending to fuse traditional dramaturgy and code. The script is being written to incorporate production-specific choices by producing companies, and to allow these choices to serve as subjects of media that develop over the course of the rehearsal process and run---further directing the actors' choices with each performance, thus further developing the dramaturgy.  The project … [Read more...] about Entropy Bound

Los Atlantis was an experimental stage piece created by J. Ed Araiza (head of UCLA's MFA acting program), REMAP Director Jeff Burke, and School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) students. Incorporating immersive projection, online streaming, and participatory theatre techniques, the production created an evolving digital memory of the piece's location (Los Angeles), as well as of each performance and audience to impact the next. Los Atlantis followed a small band of travelers as they … [Read more...] about Los Atlantis

UCLA REMAP and the Buenos Aires-based company Cuerda Productions collaboratively experimented with the use of media in aerial performance at cheLA in March & April 2013. The intensive, exploratory workshop used Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman as source material, and researched possibilities for new software, composition, sound & lighting design, projection of images, video & text, and Cuerda's water wall & "flying" actors. The REMAP team consisted of Jeff Burke (REMAP … [Read more...] about Einstein’s Dreams

An Adaptation of Macbeth is an original multimedia theatrical work that has arisen out of the Rhodope International Theater Laboratory (RITL) and the ongoing collaboration between UCLA REMAP and the Bulgarian host company, the Rhodope Drama Theatre (RDT), now combined with the Plovdiv Drama Theatre (PDT) under the continued artistic direction of Krystu Krastev. The project represents a further step in the group’s investigations of theatrical media and their place within the Cyber Age. Based on a … [Read more...] about An Adaptation of Macbeth

REMAP provided technical and production support for the development and staging of original multimedia performances inspired by critical examination of Gone with the Wind. Students---collaborating with REMAP's Jeff Burke and four-time Emmy-winning composer & visiting faculty member Laura Karpman---co-wrote, co-directed and co-designed the pieces, while also co-developing the technology. During the Fall 2011 quarter, media concepts were developed, and an interdisciplinary team formed. … [Read more...] about Gone with the Wind Remixed

This workshop theatre production based on Leonardo Da Vinci’s version of the classic myth was created by Alexandar Iliev (Bulgarian National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts), Jed Harris (Carnegie Mellon School of Drama), Sergio Costola (Southwestern University) and Jeff Burke (UCLA REMAP) for the Rhodope International Theater Laboratory. Collaborating artists for REMAP included Cat Deakins (cinematography/visuals), Jonathan Snipes (sound design/composition), and Francesco Capodieci … [Read more...] about The Virgin and the Unicorn

Written and co-directed by Tony-award winning director and UCLA theater professor Mel Shapiro, the Blogger Project interweaved elements from Homer’s Iliad, the Iraq War, and Internet-based communication within a simulated gaming world on stage. Like the Blogger Project's text, the visuals resulted from a unique collaboration. For the experimental production, REMAP gathered a team of professional alumni and student researchers---from Computer Science, Theater, Animation, Cinematography, and … [Read more...] about Blogger Project

Using the Ogre-based 3D engine created for Homer in Cyberspace, REMAP created the projection design for a very different theatrical experience: Three plays by Yukio Mishima—Yuya, Dojoji, and Yorobashi—directed, and translated into English for the first time, by Conor Hanratty. Projection design: Jeff Burke, Vanessa HoltgreweSoftware: Vids Samanta UCLA Department of Theater---2009. Click on any image for a larger view: … [Read more...] about Three Modern Noh Plays

Primer/Lem was an original puppet, object, and multimedia performance piece created by Matt Acheson, Jeff Burke, Tom Lee, Jonathan Snipes, and Jared J. Stein. The team received funding from The Trust for Mutual Understanding to build the piece while collaborating with puppeteers from Theatredreams Sofia and the State Puppet Theatre of Varna at the 2009 Rhodope International Theatre Laboratory in Bulgaria. The work of the great Polish writer Stanislaw Lem anticipated the way technology would … [Read more...] about Primer/Lem

Homer in Cyberspace was a musical first performed at UCLA in 2008. The modern update to Homer's Odyssey was written by Daniel Keleher and Tony Award-winning director & UCLA professor Mel Shapiro, with original music by Roger Bourland (UCLA Professor Emeritus of Music), and media by REMAP. The piece explored the ancient tale of Odysseus, Telemachus, and Penelope amidst the modern tension between technology and the emotional soul. The media design built on techniques of past work---including … [Read more...] about Homer in Cyberspace

This multidisciplinary project developed techniques to incorporate its audience's demographic data into its story details, thus creating dynamic text. The original piece by Jeff Burke, Adam Shive, and Jared J. Stein anticipated today's micro-targeted news and involved a retelling of Homer’s Iliad, attempting to transform traditional theater with complex digital technology design and audience participation. UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television---2001-2003. … [Read more...] about Iliad Project

A mainstage production of Ionesco's political and Shakespearian satire, Macbett was directed by graduate student Adam Shive for this MFA thesis, while collaborating with the HyperMedia Studio's Jeff Burke. Burke conceived and developed interactive systems for the show: The lighting and sound were manipulated by the motion and positions of performers, enabling the supernatural characters to control how they and others within the play's world were presented. UCLA Department of Theater---2001. … [Read more...] about Macbett

Fahrenheit 451 was a stage adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s science fiction classic, performed as a student workshop production at UCLA. Directors Marc Fellner & Kathy Castoro and producer DJ Gugenheim (all undergraduates) worked with the Hypermedia Studio, which led a team of student programmers to design the video systems. Live and prerecorded video on three rear-projection screens played from a single computer at full resolution and speed, and could be “edited” on the fly by an operator in … [Read more...] about Fahrenheit 451