Digital artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, is presenting a new installation titled *Regular Animals* (2025) at Art Basel Miami Beach's Zero 10 digital art section. The work features robotic canines with hyper-realistic heads resembling tech billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, as well as historical figures Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, and Beeple himself. Each robot costs $100,000 (in an edition of two plus one artist's proof), and all were sold during the VIP preview, except the Bezos piece. The robots excrete certificates of authenticity that include QR codes for purchasing accompanying NFTs, and they continuously photograph their surroundings, with images reinterpreted in the style of each dog's humanoid counterpart.
This installation matters because it merges several provocative themes: the intersection of AI, crypto art, and physical sculpture; the cult of personality around tech moguls who shape digital perception; and Beeple's continued evolution after his record-breaking $69.3 million NFT sale in 2021. By creating a dystopian, satirical commentary on how billionaires and AI mediate our view of the world, Beeple reinforces his position as a leading figure in the digital art movement while testing the boundaries of what constitutes an artwork—especially one that literally produces its own certificates of authenticity.