머스크와 저커버그 머리를 한 로봇 개들이 베를린 박물관에서 비플의 새로운 전시에서 돌아다닌다

Robot dogs with Musk and Zuckerberg heads roam around Berlin museum in Beeple's new exhibit

Associated Press · 🇺🇸 New York, US https://apnews.com/author/fanny-brodersen EN 2026-04-29 03:05 Translated
유명한 인물들 — 엘론 머스크, 마크 저커버그, 제프 베조스, 앤디 워홀, 파블로 피카소 — 의 모습을 한 초현실적인 실리콘 머리를 가진 로봇 개들이 베를린 박물관에서 돌아다니고 있다. 이들은 통합된 카메라로 이전에 포착한 주변 환경의 인쇄된 이미지를 가끔 "배설"한다.

이 동물들은 현재 베를린의 노이에 나시오날갤러리에서 전시 중인 미국 예술가 비플(마이크 윈켈만)의 인터랙티브 설치 미술 작품의 일부이다.

각 인쇄된 이미지는 인공지능으로 변환된 현실의 일부로, 개의 성격 또는 즉, 그 어깨 위의 인간 인물의 세계관을 닮아 있다. (즉, 피카소 개는 입체파 스타일의 이미지를 만들고 워홀의 개는 팝 아트 스타일을 생성한다.)

이것은 우리의 인식이 알고리즘과 기술 플랫폼에 의해 어떻게 형성되는지에 대한 논평이다.

비플은 AP와의 인터뷰에서 "과거에 우리의 세계관은 예술가들이 세계를 어떻게 보았는지에 의해 부분적으로 형성되었다"고 말했다. "피카소가 그린 방식은 우리가 세계를 보는 방식을 바꾸었고, 워홀이 소비주의와 팝 문화에 대해 이야기한 방식이 그가 이런 것들을 보는 방식을 바꾸었다."

이제 우리의 세계관은 우리가 무엇을 보고 무엇을 보지 않을지 결정하는 강력한 알고리즘을 소유한 기술 억만장자들에 의해 형성된다고 그는 덧붙였다.

베를린 전시의 큐레이터 리사 보티는 인공지능이 현재 우리의 삶에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 현상 중 하나이며 "박물관은 사회가 이러한 변화를 반영할 수 있는 장소"라고 말했다.

"정규 동물"이라는 제목의 이 작품은 2025년 아트 바젤 마이애미 비치에서 처음 전시되었다.

비플은 다양한 디지털 미술 작업을 하는 사우스캐롤라이나 출신의 그래픽 디자이너이다. 그는 3D 그래픽의 "매일" 운동의 창립자 중 한 명이다. 그는 오랫동안 매일 그림을 그려 온 날을 놓치지 않고 온라인에 게시해 왔다.

크리스티 경매사에 따르면, 그는 데이비드 호크니와 제프 쿤스 이후 살아있는 가장 비싼 세 번째 예술가이다.

2021년 봄, 크리스티는 "에브리데이즈: 처음 5000일"이라는 비플의 디지털 콜라주에 대한 경매 입찰을 열었으며, 최종적으로 6,900만 달러 이상에 낙찰되었다. 경매사는 이 미술 작품을 "현대 사회, 정부, 소셜 미디어에 대한 비판"으로 묘사했다.

아트 바젤 2025 행사에서 비플은 그의 개들이 배설한 사진들을 관객들에게 증정했으며, "100% 유기농 GMO 불포함 개 똥"이라고 적힌 인증서가 함께 제공되었다. 일부 인쇄물에는 무료 NFT에 접근할 수 있는 QR 코드가 있었으며, 이는 사실상 비플이 사람들(때로는 사진의 주인공 자신)이 잠재적으로 수익화할 수 있도록 그의 디지털 미술을 무료로 제공했다는 의미이다.
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Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after famous figures like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are roaming a Berlin museum. This interactive installation by American artist Beeple is at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. (AP video by Pietro De Cristofaro)

Artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, poses inside his installation titled Regular Animals, with robots in the likeness of Kim Jong Un, left, Elon Musk, second left, Jeff Bezos, center, and Mark Zuckerberg, right, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Robots in the likeness of Elon Musk, foreground, and Jeff Bezos, right, are displayed at the installation titled Regular Animals by artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

A Robot in the likeness of Kim Jong Un displayed at the installation titled Regular Animals by artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

From left: Robots in the likeness of Kim Jong Un, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Beeple, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso, displayed at the installation titled Regular Animals by the artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, poses inside his installation titled Regular Animals, with robots in the likeness of Elon Musk, left, Kim Jong Un, second left, Pablo Picasso, second right, and Andy Warhol, right, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after famous figures like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are roaming a Berlin museum. This interactive installation by American artist Beeple is at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. (AP video by Pietro De Cristofaro)

Artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, poses inside his installation titled Regular Animals, with robots in the likeness of Kim Jong Un, left, Elon Musk, second left, Jeff Bezos, center, and Mark Zuckerberg, right, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, poses inside his installation titled Regular Animals, with robots in the likeness of Kim Jong Un, left, Elon Musk, second left, Jeff Bezos, center, and Mark Zuckerberg, right, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Robots in the likeness of Elon Musk, foreground, and Jeff Bezos, right, are displayed at the installation titled Regular Animals by artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Robots in the likeness of Elon Musk, foreground, and Jeff Bezos, right, are displayed at the installation titled Regular Animals by artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

A Robot in the likeness of Kim Jong Un displayed at the installation titled Regular Animals by artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

A Robot in the likeness of Kim Jong Un displayed at the installation titled Regular Animals by artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

From left: Robots in the likeness of Kim Jong Un, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Beeple, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso, displayed at the installation titled Regular Animals by the artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

From left: Robots in the likeness of Kim Jong Un, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Beeple, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso, displayed at the installation titled Regular Animals by the artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, poses inside his installation titled Regular Animals, with robots in the likeness of Elon Musk, left, Kim Jong Un, second left, Pablo Picasso, second right, and Andy Warhol, right, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, poses inside his installation titled Regular Animals, with robots in the likeness of Elon Musk, left, Kim Jong Un, second left, Pablo Picasso, second right, and Andy Warhol, right, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

BERLIN (AP) — Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after world-renowned figures — including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso — can be seen roaming around a Berlin museum, occasionally “pooing” printed images of their surroundings which they’ve previously captured with integrated cameras.

The animals are part of an interactive installation by American artist Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) currently showing at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie.

Each printed image shows a snippet of reality transformed by AI to resemble the personality of the dog or, in other words, the worldview of the human figure on its shoulders (i.e., the Picasso dog will produce images in Cubist style and Warhol’s in pop art).

It’s a commentary on how our perceptions are shaped by algorithms and technology platforms, the organizers of the exhibition write in the description of the event.

“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.

“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 dogs also wear heads in Beeple’s own image.

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.

The work, entitled “Regular Animals,” was first shown at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025.

Beeple is a graphic designer from South Carolina who does a variety of digital artwork. He is one of the founders of the “everyday” movement in 3D graphics: For years, he has been creating a picture every day and posting it online without missing a single day.

According to Christie’s, he is the third most expensive living artist to sell at auction, after David Hockney and Jeff Koons.

In the spring of 2021, Christie’s opened bidding for Beeple’s digital collage entitled “Everydays: The First 5000 Days,” with the sale ultimately closing at over $69 million. The auction house described the artwork as “critiques of modern society, the government and social media” in the form of “grotesque, dystopian futures, often featuring celebrities like Donald Trump and Kanye West.”

Christie’s said the sale marked the first time a major auction house offered a digital-only artwork with a non-fungible token as a guarantee of its authenticity, as well as the first time cryptocurrency has been used to pay for an artwork at auction.

Non-fungible tokens, known as NFTs, are electronic identifiers confirming a digital collectible is real by recording the details on a digital ledger known as a blockchain. The tokens have swept the online collecting world recently, an offshoot of the boom in cryptocurrencies.

At the Art Basel 2025 event, Beeple gave away the photos pooed by his dogs to audience members, accompanied by a certificate that read “100% organic GMO-free dog shit.” Some prints had QR codes that gave access to free NFTs, which in practice meant Beeple was giving away his digital art for free for people (sometimes the subjects of the photos themselves) to potentially monetize.