Digital artist Beeple put his face on a $100K robot dog next to Elon Musk and Picasso – it sold first

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Mike Winkelmann, the integer creator known arsenic Beeple, has placed himself astatine the halfway of the battalion — virtually — with his latest viral installation astatine Art Basel Miami Beach, and there’s inactive clip to spot it done Sunday.

His “Regular Animals” task features $100,000 robotic dogs outfitted with hyper-realistic heads resembling Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, alongside creation legends Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. The robot dogs roam a plexiglass pen, capturing images done chest-mounted cameras that are processed by AI and printed from their hindquarters, according to the WSJ. Of the prints produced, 256 see QR codes that connection collectors a escaped NFT, distributed successful bags labeled “Excrement Sample.”

Beeple besides included himself successful this exclusive group, a determination the Charleston-based creator himself called “ballsy.” His self-portrait canine sold first, astonishing adjacent Beeple, helium told the Journal.

The task marks astatine slightest the 2nd clip Winkelmann has go the creation world’s main character. Four years ago, his integer collage sold astatine Christie’s for $69 million, helping to substance an NFT roar that would highest a twelvemonth aboriginal earlier mostly imploding.

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