A New York University photography professor has taken performance art to another level by having a camera embedded in his skull, reports CNN. Wafaa Bilal, who teaches at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, said he had a piercing studio install the camera last month as part of an art project ("The 3rd I") for the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar. The thumb-sized camera, which is attached to a titanium plate, will take one picture every minute for a year, documenting Bilal's day-to-day "mundane" existence. "This will expose the unspoken conditions we face," Bilal said on Thursday. "A project like this is meant to establish a dialogue about surveillance." Students were not necessarily thrilled by the idea of featuring in Bilal's photos, so university officials have requested that he put a cover on the camera while teaching.
Read original story in CNN | Friday, Dec. 3, 2010
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