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Beeple’s Robot Dogs Sell Out at Art Basel Miami With ‘Regular Animals’

The AI-driven installation satirizes algorithmic power through masked quadrupeds that photograph visitors, ejecting style-specific prints tied to NFTs.

Overview

  • The work anchors Art Basel Miami Beach’s new Zero 10 digital section, debuting during the VIP preview and drawing heavy on-site crowds and online attention.
  • Robot quadrupeds wear hyper-real faces of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Beeple, with masks credited in reports to Landon Meier.
  • Each robot continuously captures images and outputs them in a persona-specific visual style, producing physical certificates labeled as excrement samples.
  • Coverage reports a planned total of 1,028 prints over the run, including 256 with barcodes to claim verifiable NFTs linked to the images.
  • Art Basel confirmed all robot editions sold out at $100,000 each, and Beeple said the recording and blockchain-storage functions will end after three years.