Jeff Burke is Executive Director, Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles. He will make a public presentation on Monday, January 12th at 7:30pm in the Alma Thomas Theater, open to everyone. 

Jeff Burke’s work in the arts and engineering explores how emerging technologies can be employed to serve expressive and social goals, and focuses on the rich opportunities for synthesis across disciplines within theater, media installation, architecture, and systems engineering.  He has designed, managed or produced performances, new genre art installations and new facility construction in nine countries from 1999-2008, initiated and contributes to many university research projects, and publishes regularly in a variety of disciplines.  His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Intel, Cisco, Nokia, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

He is Executive Director of REMAP, the Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a joint program of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.  REMAP’s core projects investigate the interrelationships among community, culture and technology and how embedded and mobile computing can support community development and cultural expression.  Burke is also area lead for urban sensing at the National Science Foundation Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at UCLA.