XOXO is an experimental festival that celebrates independent artists who live and work on the internet · 🐘 https://xitter.cf/t.co/7emK6ow1N6
Portland, OR
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Last 24 hours! Registration for the final XOXO closes tomorrow, Wednesday May 29, at 12pm PT/3pm ET. We'll begin distributing passes through our lottery shortly after! 2024.xoxofest.com/
Everything is half the price of past years: $250 for the full festival and conference. Surveys are open until 12pm PT/3pm ET on Wednesday, May 29, and passes will start going out via the lottery shortly after. Hope to see you in August! 2024.xoxofest.com/
On Friday, we’re bringing some of our favorite indie publications under one tent for a daytime event we’re calling the Indie Media Circus, featuring the folks behind @404mediaco, @kottke, @platformer, @broderick's Garbage Day, and more.
New this year: XOXO Sideshow is an evening with some of our favorite projects from the internet, including the first live Never Post with @mikerugnetta , The Pudding (@puddingviz), @SmallBuStudio, Every Frame A Painting, @depthsofwiki LIVE and more to come.
And the conference will be emceed by our old friends, Jenn Schiffer and Open Mike Eagle (@Mike_Eagle)!
Along with Pulitzer-winning journalist/author Ed Yong (@edyong209), and Hugo-winning author/podcaster Charlie Jane Anders. Plus, three of our favorite past speakers will revisit their XOXO talks: Panic’s @Cabel Sasser, Darius Kazemi, and The Verge’s @sarahjeong.
This year’s conference lineup includes Molly White (@molly0xFFF) of @web3isgreat, @SweetBabyInc's Kim Belair, Folding Ideas documentarian Dan Olson (@FoldableHuman), writer/researcher Erin Kissane, @Aftermath_site co-founder Gita Jackson (@xoxogossipgita)…
🎉🎟 One last time, XOXO returns this August 22–24 with three days of people and projects we love from the internet. Registration is now open, surveys close Wednesday, May 29! 2024.xoxofest.com/
We aren’t posting regular updates for this year’s festival on X/Twitter. This is a bad place. Find us elsewhere:
🦣 Mastodon: xoxo.zone/@xoxo
🦋 Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/xoxofest.co…
@ Threads: threads.net/@xoxofest
If we weren’t in a global pandemic, XOXO 2022 would have been last weekend. Like the past two years, we felt its absence like an XOXO-shaped hole in our hearts. We miss all of you so much! Hope to see you again next September.
ALT Photo of exhausted XOXO founders Andy Baio and Andy McMillan sitting side-by-side in front of illuminated "XOXO" letters on stage at the end of the first XOXO.
We originally thought XOXO might be a one-off, but the electricity in the room convinced us to try it again: we knew we could make it better if we had another chance. We tried to carry that nervous energy of experimentation and improvement for six more years of the festival.
ALT Photo from the back of the room of attendees watching the opening talk at the first XOXO
For The Verge, @sixfoot6 wrote about his experience of the first XOXO. "They asked us to talk to each other and to make the event our own. The festival belonged to all of us." theverge.com/2012/9/19/33595…
Today is the 10 year anniversary of the first XOXO. It was a pretty scrappy thing, an experimental festival with a lot of rough edges, but it ended up being better than we could have imagined — in no small part because of all the incredible creative people who showed up.
ALT Black-and-white photo of the Yale Union Laundry Building, a two-story brick industrial building in Portland, Oregon. A large marquee saying "XOXO Festival" hangs off the side.