American artist Mike Winkelmann, better known as ‘Beeple,’ has staged an interactive installation with robot dogs with incredibly life-like silicone heads modelled after famous tech billionaires. You’ll also spot a few artists such as Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.
These spooky dogs roam the museum occasionally, ‘pooing’ printed images of their surroundings (they look like Polaroids.)
“In the past, our view of the world was shaped in part by how artists saw the world,” Beeple told the AP. “How Picasso painted changed how we saw the word, how Warhol talked about consumerism, pop culture, that 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,” the artist added.
Lisa Botti, the curator of the exhibition in Berlin, said that artificial intelligence was one of the phenomena most impacting our lives today’ and that “museums are the places where society can reflect” on such transformations, which is why she wanted to have Beeple’s work shown.
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