Art Basel ATM Installation In Miami Beach Shows Users’ Bank Balances

MIAMI BEACH, FL — Art Basel in Miami Beach is known for its contemporary and often edgy works, one installation especially has everyone talking at this year’s event, which runs through Saturday — an ATM that displays the users’ bank balance for everyone to see.

“ATM Leaderboard” from the Brooklyn-based MSCHF is a real, working ATM, the art collective shared on social media.

The ATM has a “leaderboard” screen above it that shows the high scores — aka the users with the highest bank balances — and ranks them by their worth. A camera captures the images of users and posts them to the leaderboard alongside the amount they have in their account.

The rankings have been changing since the installation went on display.

DJ Diplo shared on social media Friday afternoon a video of himself using the ATM and claiming first place in the rankings with more than $3 million in his account.

“I just won Art Basel,” he wrote.

"'ATM Leaderboard' is an extremely literal distillation of wealth-flaunting impulses," Daniel Greenberg, co-founder of MSCHF, told CNN in an email. "From its conception, we had mentally earmarked this work for a location like Miami Basel, a place where there is a dense concentration of people renting Lamborghinis and wearing Rolexes. These are analogous implicit gestures to the ATM Leaderboard's explicit one."

The installation is a collaboration between MSCHF and Perrotin Gallery.