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), among other initiatives.
Fabian’s work targets alternative technological modes for collective creativity. He collaborates with diverse communities to generate reflexive media systems emphasizing cultural and locative specificity. In this context, technology and culture converge into a performative practice of investigation and expression. Recently, at UCLA, he has focused on interpretive media systems for the Los Angeles State Historic Park and the surrounding neighborhoods, and in collaboration with the California Department of State Parks and Recreation, created the Interpretive Media Laboratory (IMLab). For the new LASHP Welcome Center, he led the REMAP/IMLab teams to develop an immersive interpretive media environment. Other projects include the mobile augmented reality application Skyline Traces, the interactive installation Memoria Barrial, and the neighborhood-scale expressive environment Navilandia Al Sur.
A native of La Pampa, Argentina, Fabian maintains active collaboration with artists and theorists throughout Latin America. In 2002, he created the Centro Hipermediatico Experimental Latinoamericano (cheLA), a Buenos Aires center dedicated to research and experimentation at the intersections of community, culture, and technology.