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. The team collaborated during a two-quarter course (co-taught by Karpman and Burke, Winter & Spring 2012) to research, develop, write, cast, and rehearse under the supervision of the instructors and additional participating faculty and REMAP artist-researchers.
The class drew heavily from the initial media concepts and background materials, and researched the contemporary relevance of Gone with the Wind and related examples of 20th and 21st century performance art, opera design, multimedia works, digital manipulations, video art, music mashups/remixing, and interactive media.
The process was made possible in part by support from School of Theater, Film and Television Dean Teri Schwartz.
UCLA Department of Theater—2012.
