The REMAP Team

Director. Fabian is the Founding Director of UCLA REMAP, and teaches audiovisual creativity and new forms of digital creation (UCLA Film, Television & Digital Media). With REMAP, Fabian has developed frameworks for Cultural Civic Computing, centered on the relationships between collective creativity and civic empowerment. For UCLA, he has also been instrumental in the creation of the Laboratory for New Media (1993), the HyperMedia Studio (1997), and the Program on Digital Cultures (2001), … [Read more...] about Fabian Wagmister

Director. Jeff Burke is Professor In-Residence in the Department of Theater and Associate Dean, Research and Technology in the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA. He was the Founding Executive Director of UCLA REMAP.  Burke's research and teaching explore how emerging technologies can be designed to serve expressive and social goals. He has created, designed, managed and/or produced performances, films, software projects, installations and new facility construction. From 2006-2012, … [Read more...] about Jeff Burke

Researcher. With REMAP, Daniel is focusing on the relationship between theory and practice, and is currently cowriting a paper using the UCLA TFT Future Storytelling Summer Institute 2019 as a case study. His research interests include transmedia storytelling, and he is currently writing a thesis, Reconfiguration of the Notion of Experience in Technological Poetics, for a master's degree in Communication Design from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Daniel previously earned a … [Read more...] about Daniel Gilman Calderón

Sklar Entertainment Innovation Fellow, 2022. Zoë Chavez is a third-year undergraduate Theater major focusing on Design & Production. She believes in approaching design and storytelling from an interdisciplinary lens, reflected in her interests ranging from scenic and costume design to game development. Outside of her work in theater, Zoë is an officer for UCLA’s game development club, ACM Studio, for which she has led multiple student game projects and given tutorials on narrative … [Read more...] about Zoë Chavez

Graduate Student Researcher. Benedict is a lighting designer with an interest in applications of emerging technologies, specifically augmented and virtual reality, within traditional theatrical design. Currently in the UCLA TFT MFA program, he previously earned a BA in Theater, also at UCLA. Among his work with REMAP, he is currently working on the SCiL project, focusing on immersive online learning environments. … [Read more...] about Benedict Conran

Sklar Entertainment Innovation Fellow, 2022. Don Edler is an artist and filmmaker whose work focuses on critical perspectives centering around art and technology. His work explores the deep history of human technological development and how technology has influenced social and cultural evolution. His recent experimental documentary, Devil You Know (2020), utilizes novel machine learning-based technologies, such as OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model and the Amazon Poly synthetic voice generator, … [Read more...] about Don Edler

Sklar Entertainment Innovation Fellow, 2022. Taylor is a freelance story and comic artist, 2D animator and MFA student at UCLA, as well as the owner of Inspector Nerd Studios. Taylor's work focuses on the intersections of Blackness, disability, sexuality and gender, aimed at reexamining cultures through the lens of marginalization and positively impacting the animation industry as whole. … [Read more...] about Taylor S. Goethe

Consulting Software Engineer. Peter is a software engineer and staff researcher for UCLA REMAP, where his main activities include designing and prototyping real-time interactive distributed systems for live performances using cutting-edge technologies for live sensing, media processing, and augmented and virtual reality. Peter leads application design and development for the NSF Future Internet Architecture Named Data Networking (NDN). With NDN, he builds applications for real-time navigable … [Read more...] about Peter Gusev

Sklar Entertainment Innovation Fellow, 2022. Alejandra is a graduate student in the Master of Urban and Regional Planning program at UCLA, focusing on transportation planning. Her interests include transportation access and equity as well as environmental justice, and she also works on transportation policy and travel behavior research. Before Alejandra came to UCLA, she worked for a micromobility startup, where her love for active transportation grew. Alejandra hopes to leverage her … [Read more...] about Alejandra Rios

Research Artist Emeritus. Jared is a director, theatre-maker and writer, who has created work for stages around the world. He was a senior research artist for REMAP from 2011 to 2020 and a resident artist for REMAP's predecessor, UCLA's HyperMedia Studio, from 2001 to 2003---experimenting with approaches emerging media platforms offer theatre-making and storytelling, as a writer, director, producer and dramaturg. Jared also collaborated with the Center as the co-director of the Rhodope … [Read more...] about Jared J. Stein

Software Engineer. Jeff has been a staff software engineer for the Named Data Networking (NDN) project since 2013. As an undergraduate, he studied computer science and electrical engineering at MIT. His graduate work was in microrobotics and automation at the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab at the University of California, Berkeley . Jeff's industry experience includes software architecture, API design, coding and release management for a commercial cryptography library, managing and diagnostic … [Read more...] about Jeff Thompson

Sklar Entertainment Innovation Fellow, 2022. Marii Yoshida is currently in her first year in the Scenic Design MFA program at UCLA. She received a BA in Theater with a concentration in Scenic Design at UCLA in 2021. Her initial attraction to entertainment design was sparked by experiencing live music, theater and theme parks and feeling the genuine joy and emotional connection people can have though shared space. From her classes and productions at UCLA and seeing the exciting … [Read more...] about Marii Yoshida