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XOXO was an experimental festival for independent artists and creators from the internet.
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Yes! Every one of our videos from this year has a human-edited transcript available on YouTube. Just expand the video description and click "Show transcript."
November 19, 2024 at 4:06 AM
Yes! Every one of our videos from this year has a human-edited transcript available on YouTube. Just expand the video description and click "Show transcript."
"Community is made out of the ephemeral." Closing out the final XOXO, @charliejane.bsky.social talked about how inclusive communities are key to our survival: building a consensus reality, defeating learned helplessness, and connecting to others with joy and kindness. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
Charlie Jane Anders · Videos · XOXO
Founding io9 editor and co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, Nebula-winning author Charlie Jane Anders blends speculative fiction with deep emotional storytelling in her...
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October 11, 2024 at 9:33 PM
"Community is made out of the ephemeral." Closing out the final XOXO, @charliejane.bsky.social talked about how inclusive communities are key to our survival: building a consensus reality, defeating learned helplessness, and connecting to others with joy and kindness. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
After you watch his XOXO talk, go visit @cabel.panic.com's newly-launched Wes Cook Archive to explore all the art that he showed, and much more. wescook.art
The Wes Cook Archive
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October 11, 2024 at 6:42 PM
After you watch his XOXO talk, go visit @cabel.panic.com's newly-launched Wes Cook Archive to explore all the art that he showed, and much more. wescook.art
"Appreciate everything endlessly." A pit stop on a Seattle road trip at McDonald's in Centralia, WA sent @cabel.panic.com down a deep and magical rabbit hole into the undiscovered life's work of a nearly-forgotten artist, bringing everyone at XOXO along for the ride. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
Cabel Sasser · Videos · XOXO
“Don’t waste this. Keep everyone guessing. Make me proud.” When Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser spoke at our second festival in 2013, the Mac software company had just started venturing into games by fu...
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October 11, 2024 at 6:39 PM
"Appreciate everything endlessly." A pit stop on a Seattle road trip at McDonald's in Centralia, WA sent @cabel.panic.com down a deep and magical rabbit hole into the undiscovered life's work of a nearly-forgotten artist, bringing everyone at XOXO along for the ride. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
"I have achieved every professional accolade that I could have ever dreamed of and more, and it completely broke me." @edyong209.bsky.social earned global acclaim and a Pulitzer for his critical reporting on the pandemic for The Atlantic, but it came at a personal cost. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
Ed Yong · Videos · XOXO
Avid birder and Pulitzer-winning science journalist Ed Yong built a devoted audience for his deeply empathetic coverage of the pandemic for The Atlantic, while his two New York Times bestsellers, ...
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October 10, 2024 at 7:08 PM
"I have achieved every professional accolade that I could have ever dreamed of and more, and it completely broke me." @edyong209.bsky.social earned global acclaim and a Pulitzer for his critical reporting on the pandemic for The Atlantic, but it came at a personal cost. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
"You can monetize a hate video, but there is no hazard pay for harassment." Sweet Baby Inc. founder/CEO Kim Belair shares what happened when a conspiracy theory about "woke-ifying" video games spawned a year-long coordinated hate campaign against her 16-person studio. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
Kim Belair · Videos · XOXO
Writer and narrative designer Kim Belair is the CEO and co-founder of Sweet Baby, a Montreal-based narrative development company that works with game companies to strengthen their storytelling, incl...
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October 10, 2024 at 6:38 PM
"You can monetize a hate video, but there is no hazard pay for harassment." Sweet Baby Inc. founder/CEO Kim Belair shares what happened when a conspiracy theory about "woke-ifying" video games spawned a year-long coordinated hate campaign against her 16-person studio. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
"Envy. Impatience. They’re the monster I struggle with, but they are ultimately a part of me." Folding Ideas' @foldablehuman.bsky.social on measuring himself against the work of others, a sometimes-debilitating pressure that also drives him to make new things. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
Dan Olson · Videos · XOXO
Alberta-based documentarian Dan Olson is the creator of Folding Ideas, a series of filmic long-form video essays with incisive critical looks at media, technology, and culture. His feature-length s...
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October 9, 2024 at 6:43 PM
"Envy. Impatience. They’re the monster I struggle with, but they are ultimately a part of me." Folding Ideas' @foldablehuman.bsky.social on measuring himself against the work of others, a sometimes-debilitating pressure that also drives him to make new things. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
"This did not define me." Two years after her XOXO 2016 talk, @sarahjeong.bsky.social became the target of a massive right-wing harassment campaign. Six years later, she revisits the ridiculous, traumatic, uniquely terrible experience—with a message of hope for others. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
Sarah Jeong · Videos · XOXO
After years of writing about “the internet of garbage,” The Verge’s Sarah Jeong found herself at the center of it: the target of a right-wing harassment campaign when she joined the New York Times’...
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October 9, 2024 at 6:20 PM
"This did not define me." Two years after her XOXO 2016 talk, @sarahjeong.bsky.social became the target of a massive right-wing harassment campaign. Six years later, she revisits the ridiculous, traumatic, uniquely terrible experience—with a message of hope for others. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
"We have to fix the fucking networks." Writer/researcher @kissane.bsky.social on how her work on the COVID Tracking Project was made possible by social platforms now hostile to real human connection, and why we need better, safer networks for our collective survival. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
Erin Kissane · Videos · XOXO
Writer/researcher Erin Kissane is working to build better and safer networks for collective survival, with efforts including the COVID Tracking Project, a powerful 40,000 word analysis of Meta’s ro...
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October 8, 2024 at 6:31 PM
"We have to fix the fucking networks." Writer/researcher @kissane.bsky.social on how her work on the COVID Tracking Project was made possible by social platforms now hostile to real human connection, and why we need better, safer networks for our collective survival. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
"I used to dream of labor… but now I dream of different things." @aftermath.site cofounder and journalist/critic @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social on surviving the collapsing media landscape and the rise of worker-owned, subscriber-funded online journalism. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
Gita Jackson · Videos · XOXO
After witnessing the upheaval in digital media firsthand at Vice’s Motherboard and Kotaku, internet culture journalist and critic Gita Jackson teamed with former Kotaku staffers last year to launch...
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October 8, 2024 at 6:11 PM
"I used to dream of labor… but now I dream of different things." @aftermath.site cofounder and journalist/critic @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social on surviving the collapsing media landscape and the rise of worker-owned, subscriber-funded online journalism. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
Returning to the XOXO stage ten years after his satirical “How I Won the Lottery” talk, @tinysubversions.bsky.social reflects on the compromises that come with being “indie” and the toxic systems that coerce us into betraying our values. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
Darius Kazemi · Videos · XOXO
When he last spoke at XOXO in 2014, internet artist Darius Kazemi was making Twitter more fun with bots and toys. These days, Darius helps people leave centralized social media instead: showing you...
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October 7, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Returning to the XOXO stage ten years after his satirical “How I Won the Lottery” talk, @tinysubversions.bsky.social reflects on the compromises that come with being “indie” and the toxic systems that coerce us into betraying our values. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
“We can build the web we want to see.” @molly.wiki kicked off XOXO 2024's conference with a hopeful talk about building @web3isgoinggreat.com and how we can “push the web back towards the wonderful, joyful, beautiful place it used to be.” xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
Molly White · Videos · XOXO
Best known for puncturing blockchain/crypto hype with her Web3 Is Going Just Great project, writer/researcher Molly White believes a better web is possible. Launched two years ago, her Citation Ne...
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October 7, 2024 at 6:54 PM
“We can build the web we want to see.” @molly.wiki kicked off XOXO 2024's conference with a hopeful talk about building @web3isgoinggreat.com and how we can “push the web back towards the wonderful, joyful, beautiful place it used to be.” xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
So sorry, but we officially sold out yesterday. There’s always far more demand than seats in the venue, which is why we distribute passes via a lottery system.
June 6, 2024 at 3:08 PM
So sorry, but we officially sold out yesterday. There’s always far more demand than seats in the venue, which is why we distribute passes via a lottery system.
If you didn’t get a pass, we’re so sorry—there’s always far more demand than available space, and this final year was no exception. As always, we’ll post videos of our conference talks after the festival. We wish all of you could come!
June 5, 2024 at 8:38 PM
If you didn’t get a pass, we’re so sorry—there’s always far more demand than available space, and this final year was no exception. As always, we’ll post videos of our conference talks after the festival. We wish all of you could come!
If you have a pass, you can also sign in to see this year's attendee directory and update your profile/badge info at my.xoxofest.com.
Attend · XOXO
XOXO is an experimental festival for independent artists who live and work online, taking place in Portland, Oregon on August 22—24, 2024.
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June 5, 2024 at 8:38 PM
If you have a pass, you can also sign in to see this year's attendee directory and update your profile/badge info at my.xoxofest.com.
Sorry! Surveys closed on Wednesday and we’ve been distributing passes through our lottery ever since.
June 2, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Sorry! Surveys closed on Wednesday and we’ve been distributing passes through our lottery ever since.
Don't fret! The first big batch of invites went out, but the lottery will resume sending out passes on Monday.
May 31, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Don't fret! The first big batch of invites went out, but the lottery will resume sending out passes on Monday.