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Precursor Lab

A research lab for live performance technology at SFU

The Precursor Lab at Simon Fraser University, with Wladimiro Woyno R. as Principal Investigator: funded by a Canada Foundation for Innovation JELF grant awarded in November 2021, the lab space completed in April 2024 and inaugurated that December. The planning, the build and fitting-out, and a talk about the lab at a symposium in Prague in October 2024.

A presentation board for the Precursor Laboratory: elevations, a photo of the space and an isometric viewThe empty room under construction: ladders, a scissor lift and two workersThe room with a fresh blue wall, ladders and paint on a dusty floorA plan of the lab's circuits: benches, ceiling circuits and wall outletsA pen sketch of a wall-mounted desk with dimensions and a figureA row of plywood wall-mounted desk prototypes along the wallA cut plan for the desks on 4 by 8 plywood sheetsA talk in a theatre: a speaker at a lectern beside a large projected slideThe speaker gesturing beside a projected floor planPlywood shelving filled with labelled bins and boxesLong boards painted red, drying on sawhorses in the woodshopTwo black speakers mounted on a white wall striped with red boardsThe lab from one end: benches, shelving, a blue wall and red stripesThe lab under coloured light, benches and equipment along the wallA person working beneath a row of moving lights hung on a pipeThe finished lab in use: benches, an arm lamp, a green pendant and a screen on the blue wall