ALBAWABA -An artist who goes by the name Beeple has gone viral after mocking tech billionaires and famed artists, such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol, by creating them as realistic robot dogs that defecate NFTs.
Beeple's work was displayed at the Art Basel event in Miami Beach, with videos of the demonstration garnering hundreds of thousands of views. According to Page Six, Beeple collaborated with famed mask-maker Landon Meier to create the masks.
Artist Beeple mocks tech billionaires with realistic robot dogs that poop NFTs
Videos of the event flooded social media with many users describing the robot dogs as "uncanny" and "creepy." An Instagram user wrote under Art Basel's post, "This is genius and terrifying at the same time."
When asked about the art piece, Beeple told Page Six, "It used to be that we saw the world interpreted through the eyes of artists, but now Mark Zuckerberg and Elon, in particular, control a huge amount of how we see the world."
He added further, "We see the world through their eyes because they control these very powerful algorithms that decide what we see. And so we wanted to kind of play with that idea."
Page Six revealed that robot dogs have already been purchased for $100,000 each by private collectors. It seems that while all robots have already been purchased, attendees can collect prints defecated by the uncanny robot dogs.
The prints are all stamped with "Excrement Sample," which states that they are "disgusting to most patrons of the arts" and could cause "uncontrollable erections in degenerate art collectors."
