Digital Zoo

Digital Zoo Free App

Rated 3.00/5 (2) —  Free Android application by Transnational Team

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About Digital Zoo

Thanks to the Belgian artist René Magritte many people know when a pipe is not a pipe. The Digital Zoo app draws inspiration from Magritte's famous illustration, applying the paradoxical "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" concept to the natural world.

The Digital Zoo app helps us to mind the gap between real animals and the animal imagery that has become so common on screens, toys, furniture, bags, clothing, and even food. Equipped with Digital Zoo app, the fake wildlife around you can quickly become part of a collaborative effort to see nature for what it is. By documenting the superabundance of commercial 'wildlife' you'll not only be adding to an online trophy collection – you'll be raising the profile of related conservation efforts. Find products that use animal likenesses and add your photos to the ones made by other digital naturalists. Via social networks the app lets you share your shots, framed like oil paintings, with captions like "Ceci n'est pas un tigre." Join the culture jamming fun, snapping photos of animal products that are reproducing faster than their wild cousins.

Today, with many familiar species at risk of extinction, Magritte's 'Treachery of Images' is relevant to the many ways that animals appear in products and media. Instead of conserving wild animals, we surround ourselves with copies. The world of images is teeming with animals, but in the service of marketing they seldom remind us of their troubles and struggles to survive extinction.

Sharing photos of animal merchandise with this app can communicate these issues. Let's show how products featuring at-risk species now out-number wild animal populations!

The app is entirely non-commercial. It was designed and produced with the assistance of a commission from Furtherfield, a U.K.-based arts organization, in cooperation with the CultureCode Initiative.

Transnational Temps, which produced the app, was commissioned in 2014 to execute a work called Mall of the Wild, part of the Digital Zoo exhibition mounted by Furtherfield in various shopping centers around the U.K. The app complements the on-site activities of Mall of the Wild, an urban safari of sorts aimed at younger audiences.

How to Download / Install

Download and install Digital Zoo version 1.0.4 on your Android device!
Downloaded 100+ times, content rating: Everyone
Android package: air.DigitalZoo, download Digital Zoo.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
Updated to comply with new Android security requirements.
Version update Digital Zoo was updated to version 1.0.4
More downloads  Digital Zoo reached 100 - 500 downloads
More downloads  Digital Zoo reached 50 - 100 downloads
More downloads  Digital Zoo reached 10 - 50 downloads

What are users saying about Digital Zoo

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by M####:

It was fun searching for representations of wild animals in the products all around me and share them on Twitter and Pinterest. Magritte painted the pipe saying that it was a representation and we are clearly surrounded by representations, not much originals around. It's a nice activist and artistic way to speak about the loss of biodiversity.

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by S####:

It was fun searching for representations of wild animals in the products all around me and share them on Twitter and Pinterest. Magritte painted the pipe saying that it was a representation and we are clearly surrounded by representations, not much originals around. It's a nice activist and artistic way to speak about the loss of biodiversity.


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