Last Friday, XOXO, an art and technology conference scheduled to take place in Portland, Oregon, in September, became the highest-funded project of its type in Kickstarter history. Over the course of the campaign, organizers raised a whopping $175,000. XOXO’s 400 available tickets — procured by funding the project at the $400 level — sold out in only 50 hours. With speakers like Makerbot’s Bre Pettis, the web comic creator R. Stevens, Star Wars Uncut co-creator Jamie Wilkinson, and the founders of tech-savvy creative communities like Etsy, Metafilter, and Kickstarter—all that fall in the realm of what the conference founders call “disruptive creativity” — it’s no wonder. The organizers pulled together a host of makers working at that sweet spot where art and technology meet and then invited the public to join in.