A surreal art installation by Beeple featuring robotic dogs topped with hyper-realistic silicone heads of global power figures has officially taken over the internet. This includes Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and various others. The now-viral clip shows these uncanny creations roaming inside a museum in Berlin. This has clearly managed to blur the very thin line between satire and discomfort.
Internet reacts to viral robot dogs with heads of tech moguls
The popular exhibit at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie is the work of the celebrated American digital artist Mike Winkelmann, AKA Beeple. He is known for his provocative takes on technology, capitalism, and internet culture. And this time, Beeple has quite literally gone above and beyond to put faces to these global superpowers.
The Associated Press even took to social media and posted this viral video to X (formerly Twitter). This was posted with the caption, “Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Kim Jong Un, and other global figures roam around a Berlin museum in an exhibit by American artist Beeple.”
Titled “Regular Animals,” the robotic dogs were visibly modeled after world-renowned figures, leaving everyone thoroughly surprised. They also “poo” printed images of their surroundings transformed by AI to match the personalities whose heads they carry. Moreover, these were captured by integrated cameras.
Meanwhile, Beeple explained the deeper message behind the spectacle to AP. He shared, “In the past, our view of the world was shaped in part by how artists saw the world. How Picasso painted changed how we saw the world, how Warhol talked about consumerism and pop culture, which changed how he saw those things. Now our view of the world is shaped by tech billionaires who own powerful algorithms that decide what we see and what we don’t see.”
Beeple further added, “That’s an immense amount of power that I don’t think we’ve fully understood, especially because when they want to make a change, they don’t need to lobby the U.N. They don’t need to get something through Congress or the EU, they just wake up and change these algorithms.”
The installation taps into a growing global anxiety about the unchecked influence of tech giants. Whether they see it as clever satire or unsettling prophecy, the internet clearly isn’t looking away!
Originally reported by Mehak Walia on Mandatory.
