Beeple’s Regular Animals stalks the liminal space between worship and unease at Art Basel Miami 2025. On the polished floor of Zero 10, a pack of autonomous robot dogs drifts through the crowd, each body crowned with a hyper-real head: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and Beeple himself. Their gaze is uncanny, neither human nor machine, as if the icons of industry and art had shed their bodies and uploaded themselves into obedient chassis of steel and code.
The work reads like a moving fresco of the present tense, where algorithms curate not only what people see, but what they believe is real. These techno-chimeras pad silently between viewers, echoing the way platforms and their invisible calculations slip into daily perception, shaping attention, taste, and even memory. Regular Animals suggests that in a world mediated by feeds, the line between visionary and product, creator and program, has thinned to the thickness of a screen.
On view from December 3rd to 7th, 2025, Regular Animals turns the fair into a kind of living interface: visitors swipe past the work as they move, while the robot dogs loop endlessly, performing a choreography of control and repetition. In gathering tech magnates and art legends into one roaming menagerie, Beeple hints that the figures who once promised new horizons now patrol the edges of imagination itself, keeping watch over what people can still call their own.