Technologies shape the worldview more strongly than traditional art.

And whoever masters the technology...

No one was prepared for this, but at Art Basel Miami Beach, the robberies with the faces of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckberg and other world figures circulated inside an enclosure like post-capitalist mascots, tripping on purpose and occasionally entering a poop mode that ejected small, “works of art” from the back.

The installation created by Beeple does not try to fool anyone, it is satire in its purest form, each robot prints images in the style of the figure on its face and also distributes codes that lead to NFTs, a technological zoo that transforms perceptions, algorithms and vanities into public performance.

The movements of the robberies are deliberately clumsy.

The idea is to provoke that discomfort that arises when something recognizable behaves in the wrong way, they observe the environment, take photos, feed algorithms and at the most absurd moment they expel art as if it were a social network fit, humor, yes, but also a direct criticism of the accelerated and disposable pace with which digital content is produced and consumed.

Beeple states that his intention is to comment on how billionaires, platforms and AI systems shape the worldview more powerfully than traditional art, and in fact the crowd reacted as if witnessing a ritual, when the Zuckerberg-faced dog finally defecated its impression, the collective ecstasy seemed like a case study in how technology became spectacle.

The most ironic thing is that in front of a work that tries to question digital mediation, almost all the visitors looked at the robots through the screen of their own cell phone, much more concerned with photographing and recording their videos than in seeing with their own eyes what was in front of them.