"A ticker above the counter tracks the lucre from a starting point of -$75,000, Butcher's stated investment in the piece. When I informed a man who forked over $37 for a rather short receipt that he could have bought several pastries at the nearby Maman Café with that money, he looked at me like I was the ignorant one, like I was the one who had missed the point. "I have purchased an original artwork," he told me."
"Nearby, Beeple's humanoid robodogs with the faces of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, and the artist himself, born Mike Winkelmann, patter around in a playpen, occasionally excreting "certificates of authenticity." Some of these certificates feature a QR code with - surprise, surprise - a link to purchase NFTs. Cameras inside the robot pups are constantly photographing their surroundings, which are altered using AI and printed on the pieces of paper expelled from their rears. The robots are taking photographs of YOU."
At Art Basel Miami Beach, a Zero 10 section backed by OpenSea features crypto-linked works that monetize audience engagement. Jack Butcher's Self Checkout installs Stripe terminals allowing visitors to pay any amount and receive printed receipts whose lengths match payments and include an NFT companion; a ticker records proceeds from a -$75,000 starting balance. Beeple's humanoid robodogs, bearing tech and celebrity faces, wander and expel certificates of authenticity that often include QR codes linking to NFT purchases. Cameras in the robots photograph surroundings, alter images with AI, and print them on expelled papers, making viewers subjects and consumers within the artworks' commercial mechanisms.
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