"At some point, these mechanical pets fold their rear legs, and the screen on their back bodies displays the large text 'POOP Mode.' In a short while, a printed instant film of what they captured ejects from their bodies as an NFT artwork, with applied filters and effects that correspond to the artists' and billionaires' styles. It's pop art for Andy Warhol, cubism for Pablo Picasso, black and white for Elon Musk, and a Metaverse-looking edit for Mark Zuckerberg."
"Tech giants like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are there because the artist aims to underline how their social media platforms, X and Meta, respectively, are powered by algorithms that, these days, dictate what the user sees on their feed. By capturing and printing their surroundings, these robot dogs at Art Basel pull people to look down and look at the images and see just them. The work also attempts to show how robotic systems now perform tasks once linked only to humans."
Autonomous robot dogs with lifelike heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and Beeple operate inside a boxing ring-shaped area at Art Basel Miami 2025. The devices stomp and bob while photographing their surroundings with built-in camera eyes. The machines sometimes fold their rear legs and display 'POOP Mode' on screens on their backs. Printed instant films of captured images eject as NFT artworks with filters matching each depicted figure's visual style. The installation critiques algorithm-driven social media feeds and demonstrates robotic systems performing tasks traditionally associated with humans.
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