#Beeple is back! This time in physical space: The digital artist uses his grounded but silly Midwest sensibility plus tech literacy to make art that skewers cultural icons. Here he turns tech giants, Andy Warhol (and himself!) into ROBOT DOGS with hyper-realistic human heads POOPING OUT their views of the world.

BTW, Mike Winklemann (Beeple) was the artist who became the $69M NFT art king in 2021 even though he didn't set out to sell or hype what some people call the "Bitcoin Scam" of art. He was just the popular digital artist primed at the time to be NFT's first (maybe only) rock star. He happily rode the wave while warning that most NFT art (maybe even his own) was going to be worthless crap. It's good to see him investing in other artists and his pop art is still just as pointedly goofy, profane and irreverent as ever.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/style/robot-dogs-beeple-art-basel

Musk, Zuckerberg und Warhol als Roboter-HUNDE

Das ist bizarr: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg und Andy Warhol kämpfen miteinander als Roboterhunde, die Bilder mit ihrem Hinterteil auswerfen. Als übergroße, lebensechte Köpfe auf Hunde-Roboterkörpern.

Mit dieser auffälligen Installation sorgte der als Beeple bekannte amerikanische Künstler auf der Art Basel 2025 in Miami für Aufsehen. Sein Werk trägt den Titel Regular Animals…

Link auf ein Video von CNN.

#Beeple #ElonMusk #HelgaKleisny #humanRobots #KunstUndTechnik

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

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/digital-artist-beeple-put-his-face-on-a-100k-robot-dog-next-to-elon-musk-and-picasso-it-sold-first/

Beeple Dogs
Regular Animals

> "What if the act of looking at art were no longer a one-way encounter, but part of a feedback loop in which the artwork observes, learns, and remembers us in return?” Beeple said in an artist statement accompanying the installation.

Each of the human-dog hybrids has cameras located around its head, continuously capturing photos of the surrounding environment. That data is used (presumably with the help of an AI image generator) to create the prints that the dogs “poop” out. Much like AI-generated slop flooding the internet, these digital creations are voluminous. The New York Post reports that the robots will collectively produce 1,028 prints over the course of the exhibit, 256 of which are verifiable NFTs (non-fungible tokens) that can be listed on cryptocurrency marketplaces. Each image is labeled “Excrement Sample.” Unlike an actual dog’s daily sample, these will likely rack up monetary value over time.

#beeple #regularanimals #aislop #robotdogs #NFTs #excrement #politicalart #robots #cryptoart

https://www.popsci.com/technology/elon-musk-robot-dog-poop-ai-art/