XOXO

XOXO is an experimental festival that celebrates independent artists who live and work on the internet · 🐘

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@HeatherRasley So sorry, but we don’t allow transfers.

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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! https://t.co/AJy9WP5Klg

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@Blackamazon We'll DM you.

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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! https://t.co/AJy9WP5Klg

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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.

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We’ve teamed up with our friends at @panic, @BackerKit, and @fastly/@glitch to bring back our Arcade, Art+Code, and Tabletop events with some of our favorite indie videogames, creative code, and tabletop projects. As always, we’ll keep adding things until the day of the event.

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And the conference will be emceed by our old friends, Jenn Schiffer and Open Mike Eagle (@Mike_Eagle)!

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🎉🎟 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! https://t.co/AJy9WP5Klg

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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.

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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)…

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We aren’t posting regular updates for this year’s festival on X/Twitter. This is a bad place. Find us elsewhere:

🦣 Mastodon: https://t.co/pkcmONFHqM
🦋 Bluesky: https://t.co/W12FVDIBMH
@ Threads: https://t.co/5g5kMyYnkV

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One last time, with feeling. https://t.co/dSMbjaQUM2

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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.

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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.

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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.

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It was a tough call, but there will be no XOXO 2022. While cases are low right now, we still feel there’s too much uncertainty and risk to safely commit to holding the festival this September. Hope to see you again soon! 🤞

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@ben118 Hey, Ben! With Omicron cases still increasing in Oregon, we won't be in a position to consider bringing the festival back this year for another few months. We're hopeful! 🤞