3rd Eye: NYU Artist Gets Camera Implanted In Head
A New York University arts professor might not have eyes on the back of his head, but he’s coming pretty close. Wafaa Bilal, a visual artist widely recognized for his interactive and performance pieces, had a small digital camera implanted in the back of his head — all in the name of art.Bilal said Tuesday that he underwent the procedure for an art project that was commissioned by a new museum in Doha, Qatar, in the Arab Gulf.Titled “The 3rd I,” it is one of 23 contemporary works commissioned for the opening of the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art on Dec. 30. The exhibition is entitled “Told/Untold/Retold.”The project has raised challenging questions for NYU, the nation’s largest private school with about 44,000 students.”As a school of the arts, a school whose mission is to educate artists, we place a high value on his right to free expression in his creative work as an artist …,” NYU said in a statement.
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