BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20140309T020000 RDATE:20140309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140819T030106Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140924T220000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140924T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140819T030106Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140819T030106Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250466855 DESCRIPTION: \;\nThe Church of Robotron \;\n2014 Testing and Traini ng Facility \;\n \;\nWith only 70 years remaining until the robot uprising crisis of 2084\, The Church of Robotron desperately announces t hat it will be conducting testing and training operations at the Diode G allery\, 514 NW Couch\, Portland\, OR 97209. Window altar services will be available starting September 14th\, 2104. Mutant liturgy will be held on Wednesday\, September 24th\, 2014 and (First) Thursday\, October 2nd \, 2014\, both at 7pm. \;\nOther times by appointment. \;\n \;\ nThe installation centers around three (3) altars that will test and tra in the public by subjecting them to a multitude of environmental discomf orts while playing augmented versions of the 1982 8­-bit twitch arcade g ame Roboton 2084. Participants will take up the two (2) eight­-way joyst icks to battle both on­-screen Robotrons and real­-world stimuli manifes ted from in­-game events. These futile efforts will be celebrated and ar chived on a videographed leaderboard. \;\n \;\nChurch organizers w ill be conducting research and performing additional tests to determine if the mutant savior walks among us today. Devotees and skeptics alike a re invited to take in a recorded (or live!) sermon from a church prophet and to learn more about Robotron prophecy and culture in the reading ro om. \;\n \;\nThe last human family must survive\, and it is throug h experiential Error\, deep understanding of Futility\, and the Mutant S avior’s anti-­robot chest­-mounted turreted lasers that our human cultur e can continue to thrive. \;\n \;\nAbout The Church of Robotron 3\;\nThe Church of Robotron is an avant-­fanatical post­-apocalyptic vid eogame cyber­-religion based in the 1980s but born in the 2000s in Portl and\, OR. The CoR has installed/performed at ToorCamp in Neah Bay\, held public devivals in Portland\, and celebrated with private screenings an d public swearing over low scores. \;\n \;\nAbout Diode \;\nDio de is Portland’s flagship art gallery dedicated to electronic and and el ectro­-interactive works. \;\n \;\nFor More Information \;\nCon tact: \;\nBrian Richardson (skinny@knowhere.net) \;\n(503)­929­-37 85 \;\nDiode Gallery (contact@jetsoncreative.com) \;\n\n\nTags: do rkbot\, dorkbotpdx\, pdx\, cor\, churchofrobotron\, robotron\, 2084\n\nI mported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250466855 URL:http://churchofrobotron.com SUMMARY:Church of Robotron LOCATION:Diode Gallery for Electronic Art: 514 NW Couch\, Portland Oregon 97215 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR