The eMedia Studio at University of California Irvine is a Distributed Arts Collaboratory where artistic inquiry meets technology innovation, co-sponsored by the Claire Trevor School of the Arts and Calit2, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.

Collaborative research projects in the eMedia Studio bring together artists, scientists and scholars to develop new digital media technologies for dance, music, theatre and visual arts, with embodied interaction as a primary focus. Rather than restricting human-computer interaction to screen, keyboard and mouse, our research in embodied interaction envisions networked real-world performative environments that respond in rich and meaningful ways to all aspects of human movement.

Located at Calit2 Irvine, and built specifically for interactive digital media arts, the eMedia Studio is about 2900 sq. ft. with no dividing interior walls or columns, and it is equipped with ample power, blackout capabilities, a separate workroom, a strut channel grid in the ceiling, and dedicated high bandwidth optical network connectivity to the Calit2 building at UC San Diego. Since 2004 the eMedia Studio has been used successfully for a variety of telepresence performing arts events, as well as for many other digital media projects.