Bio:

Professor Burke co-directs the UCLA REMAP, a joint effort of TFT and the Samueli School of Engineering. At UCLA, he recently completed an AR immersive theater production set in the world of Amazon Studios’ The Man in the High Castle, and is working on an AR theater adaptation of the Hugo Award-winning novel The City and The City. He is also currently leading the Innovation, Culture, and Creativity project, an NSF-supported effort to develop new opportunities at the intersection of the creative and technology sectors.

Talk Abstract:

Augmented reality (AR) offers live performance the opportunity to integrate communal experience and individualized interaction through layers of digital media. At UCLA REMAP, we have been exploring the use of AR in immersive theater in order to understand design, technology, and storytelling methods and strategies. This talk explores what we have learned through past and upcoming projects in which AR operates diegetically and is central to its characters' dramatic action. It will touch on both artistic and technology strategies, open research challenges, and opportunities for applying recent advances in artificial intelligence

Sponsored by:

Department of Digital Media, Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design