Beeple's Robot Dogs Exhibit at Berlin National Gallery

Berlin's New National Gallery features an interactive art installation where robot dogs equipped with hyperrealistic silicone heads modeled after figures including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso and the artist himself roam the space and periodically eject printed images captured from their surroundings.

The exhibit, titled "Regular Animals" and created by American artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, transforms snapshots taken by the robots' integrated cameras through artificial intelligence. Each print reflects the artistic style or worldview associated with its head: Cubist distortions for the Picasso dog and pop art aesthetics for Warhol's, according to exhibition organizers. Organizers describe the work as a commentary on how algorithms and technology platforms shape human perceptions.

Beeple, a graphic designer from South Carolina and a pioneer of the "everyday" movement in 3D graphics, explained the concept in an interview with the Associated Press. "In the past, our view of the world was shaped in part by how artists saw the world," he said. "How Picasso painted changed how we saw the world, how Warhol talked about consumerism, pop...