Ongoing / Recent
- The Trade Journal Cooperative – A subscription service which delivers a niche trade journal to your door once a quarter.
- Rosen, Wolfe and Hwang – Co-founded a boutique law practice which specializes in serving the unique needs of weird creative projects and small to mid-size technology businesses.
- Defense Charts – A Twitter account dedicated to the presentational aesthetics of the defense-industrial complex. Posting daily.
- Awesome Foundation for Arts and Sciences – A global network of giving circles devoted to forwarding the interests of awesome in the universe. 80+ chapters, $3M+ given since 2011. Co-founded with Evan Burchard, Erhardt Graeff, David Fisher, Keith Hopper, Emily Daniels, Reed Sturtevant, David Nunez, Jon Pierce, and Matt Blake.
- The California Review of Images and Mark Zuckerberg – Founded in 2017, an online scholarly journal dedicated to unpacking and analyzing the visual culture of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. CFP. Issue #1. Issue #2.
- The Brood Rite – A 51-year divinatory ritual built around the periodic emergence of the Brood X cicada. Collaboration with Helen Tseng. Image.
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Completed / Archive
- Adventure Time Forum – A collection of scholarly works focusing on the “Adventure Time” series. Collaboration with Darby Smith.
- Berkeley Law School – Secretly went to law school and obtained a J.D. Became a member of the bar in California. 2010 – 2013.
- COGSEC – Chaired a conference focused on the real-world practice of countering online influence operations. COGSEC featured practical workshops on hunting and neutralizing disinformation campaigns, keynotes describing real investigations going on within the field, and live competitions exposing vulnerabilities that persist in our information landscape.
- Cool Code, Bro – A short book exploring the origins and future of the brogrammer. Collaboration with Nick Parish.
- The Container Guide – A rugged, dockside companion field guide focused on the identification of integrated logistics corporations. Funded on Kickstarter. Collaboration with Craig Cannon.
- Gruen Day 2015 – A day-long celebration of the life of Victor Gruen, architect of the American shopping mall. Collaboration with Avery Trufelman and Helen Tseng.
- Hype Up Weekend – A weekend long project devoted to launching fake startups and attempting to obtain press coverage. Collaboration with Greg Marra.
- Infrastructure Observatory – A community of enthusiasts devoted to exploring and celebrating the infrastructural landscape. Co-founded with Hilary Hoeber.
- Intelligence and Autonomy – A research project at Data & Society focusing on the development of policy frameworks around machine intelligence and autonomy. Supported by the MacArthur Foundation, collaboration with Madeleine Elish.
- Journal of Venture Studies – Two volumes of scholarly works focusing on the “Venture Brothers” series. Collaboration with Nolan Bensen, Patrick Davison, Lea Rosen, and John Shutt.
- Most Likely to Succeed – A monthly e-mail newsletter devoted to archiving and re-releasing the music that people made when they were in high school and middle school.
- National Conspiracy Writing Month (NaCoWriMo) – Inspired by National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), National Conspiracy Writing Month (NaCoWriMo) asks participants to complete a daunting but straightforward challenge: to develop a deep, viable, and complete conspiracy theory during the thirty days of November.
- Pacific Social – A series of projects focused on the ability for bots to shape group social behavior online. Co-founded with Max Nanis and Ian Pearce.
- ‘The Power Broker’ Game Design Challenge – A 2016 game design challenge to adapt Robert Caro’s The Power Broker into playable tabletop and video game formats. CFP. Winners.
- Robot, Robot & Hwang LLP – A series of conferences and meetups devoted to experiments at the intersection of legal and computer code.
- ROFLCon – A series of conferences focused on memes and internet culture. Held at MIT biennially from 2008 – 2012. Co-founded with Christina Xu and Diana Kimball.
- Standards International – Founded a consultancy which provides “end-to-end professionalization and standards-development services”. Our first program, Certified Artificial, provides standardized rankings of AI thought-leader quality. Co-founded with Clayton Aldern.
- TableFlip – A daylong conference focused on the art of tabletop game design. Collaboration with Patrick Ewing.
- Technical Workshops – Organized “Machine Learning: The Debates” at ICML 2018, a day-long series of unscripted discussions that matched up researchers to present their best arguments and points of view on major issues within the field and around the future of the technology. Also organized “Machine Deception” at NIPS 2017, a technical workshop focusing on the capacity for machines to act as a medium through which human and other machine agents may be manipulated to believe, act upon or otherwise accept false information.
- Web Ecology Project – An informal research collective exploring and quantifying social behavior and flows of culture online. Collaboration with Jon Beilin, Evan Burchard, David Fisher, Devin Gaffney, Sam Gilbert, Erhardt Graeff, Elsa Kim, Alex Leavitt, Dharmishta Rood, Sara Watson, and Seth Woodworth.