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

Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist generally known as Beeple, has positioned himself on the heart of the pack — actually — along with his newest viral set up at Artwork Basel Miami Seashore, and there’s nonetheless time to see it by Sunday.

His “Common Animals” mission options $100,000 robotic canine outfitted with hyper-realistic heads resembling Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, alongside artwork legends Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. The robotic canine roam a plexiglass pen, capturing pictures by chest-mounted cameras which are processed by AI after which basically pooped out, according to the WSJ. Of the prints produced, 256 embody QR codes that provide collectors a free NFT, allotted in baggage labeled “Excrement Pattern.”

Beeple additionally included himself on this unique group, a transfer the Charleston-based artist himself referred to as “ballsy.” His self-portrait canine offered first, stunning even Beeple, he advised the Journal.

The mission marks at the least the second time Winkelmann has change into the artwork world’s important character. 4 years in the past, his digital collage offered at Christie’s for $69 million, serving to to gasoline an NFT increase that will peak a 12 months later earlier than largely imploding.