Andy McMillan and Andy Baio:
Today, over 10 years later, and almost two full years after we
retired the festival for good, we’re finally launching that
website. Named after what we thought would be a throwaway title
for a short-lived GitHub repo, allow us to introduce XOXO
Explore. […]And, for the first time ever (!) on an XOXO website, we now have
an actual About page, where we’ve attempted to explain what XOXO
actually was, documenting the 12-year history of the festival and
its related projects, and featuring a bunch of our favorite quotes
from press and attendees over the years.You’ll also notice the entire site is littered with floating
visual ephemera: design artifacts, illustrations, animations,
photos, and videos, all pulled from our vast archive of
commissions and collaborations.
Conferences come and conferences go. But when they go, they tend to disappear. What a remarkable library, a record, XOXO Explore is.
