NewHive
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Type of site | Social network and Publishing platform |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| URL | newhive |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Required to post, follow, or be followed |
| Launched | February 2014 |
| Current status | Suspended |
NewHive was both a social network and a creation engine for Web 2.0 content. It was a web platform that encouraged users to develop their own creative content that had been coined by NewHive as, expressions.[1] Many members of the NewHive community were productive artists with established practices, creating, “A critical framework around post-internet art practices by engaging with the art world and contemporary society".[2]
The NewHive site used Python, MongoDB, and JavaScript in a user-friendly interface. The site was hosted by Amazon's cloud services.[3] Though simple but powerful on-line tools that could be learned quickly, NewHive allowed text, links, photos, videos, drawings, music, GIFs, and more to be composed into website collages. It also allowed embedding of material from YouTube, Spotify, and so on.[4] GIFs could be combined into single scrolling pages, which NewHive called GIF walls. When you saved a page on the site, you could add tags or allow others to remix them to help them reach a broader audience or you could leave it private.[5]
NewHive was involved with new practices in contemporary art since its launch, fostering trends and allowing for the creation of thousands of art works. In addition to working with curators and promoting works created by users, it regularly commissioned multimedia mixtapes, singles, zines, ebooks, curated exhibitions, and solo projects by emerging and established artists engaged with the Internet. NewHive also worked in partnership with organizations like Asylum Arts, the Goethe-Institut and the Museum of the Moving Image.[6]