UCLA’s Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance, also known as REMAP, bridges the gap between technology and performing arts on campus, namely through experimental theater productions. REMAP’s newest project, “Xanadu,” loops audience members into the technologically advanced production.
Interfaces for contemporary large language, generative media, and perception AI models are often engineered for single user interaction. During a two-week run, over five hundred audience members contributed sketches and jazzercise moves that vision language models translated to virtual scenery elements and from choreographic prompts. The production explored how AI systems can support group creativity and play, addressing a critical gap in prevailing single user AI design paradigms.
Programs used: UNREAL, Substance 3D Painter, & Qlab.
