REMAP acts as a hub for UCLA students to conduct research, create original artistic work, and develop new technologies—at the multidisciplinary intersection of art, storytelling and engineering. Media technology is pervasive and easy to take for granted. REMAP provides a critical opportunity for students to learn how to shape the technology facing them, not just use it.
Fellowship funding enables us to support deserving undergraduate and graduate students to participate in REMAP research or to start their own projects in collaboration with others at the Center. Each of our projects has technical, artistic and social goals that encourage students to treat challenges holistically, and to become active participants in the design and use of emerging technologies. They are supported and mentored by REMAP faculty, research staff, and other students.
Existing programs include the Marty Sklar Entertainment Innovation Fellowship.
Please contact Jeff Burke at jburke@remap.ucla.edu for more information about how to give in support of UCLA students working with REMAP.
In the past, students at REMAP have investigated how future Internet technologies will affect creative expression and how augmented reality can be used to tell new types of socially impactful stories. They have created online cinema that updates itself each time it is streamed, immersive live performances, data-driven light sculptures, experiments in “puppeted architecture,” and cyberlearning environments for elementary school students, to name a few.
Students’ work with REMAP routinely takes them into the field, challenging them to integrate viewpoints from communities throughout Los Angeles and around the world. For example, as part of REMAP and California State Parks’ Interpretive Media Laboratory, they have built digital murals with civic and youth organizations for City parks, co-developing new models for collective expression. REMAP student researchers have taken part in residencies and workshops in Latin America, Eastern and Western Europe, and Asia. And their colleagues include visiting graduate and undergraduate students in residence at REMAP—new peers from leading universities in China, Italy, Singapore, and throughout the Americas, among others.
REMAP contributes to UCLA’s vision of creating innovative, humanitarian, global industry leaders, with opportunities inside and outside the classroom. Fellowships at all levels provide important financial support for students to engage deeply with these interdisciplinary efforts.