Overview
- Unveiled in Art Basel Miami Beach’s new Zero 10 section, the roaming robots drew large crowds and widespread online reaction.
- Each robot photographs the fair and periodically ejects printed artworks; the installation will produce 1,028 items, including 256 NFT-claimable pieces labeled “Excrement Sample.”
- Art Basel said every edition of the work sold during the VIP preview for $100,000 per robot.
- The pack features hyper-real heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and Beeple, with masks created by Landon Meier.
- Beeple said the robots’ image recording and blockchain-writing functions will cease after three years, and the Bezos robot does not make prints and was reported as not for sale.