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The man who really WILL have eyes in the back of his head: Artist to have camera surgically implanted as part of extreme new project
By Niall Firth
Last updated at 2:54 PM on 19th November 2010
Artist Wafaa Bilal will stream images captured by the camera device to the museum
It is a common complaint among teachers and parents that they need eyes in the back of their heads to see what their charges are up to when their backs are turned.
Now an Iraqi-born professor and artist is doing just that by having a camera implanted in the back of his head and broadcasting everything he ‘sees’ to the public.
Wafaa Bilal, a professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, is to undergo surgery in the next few weeks to have the camera installed.
The project, called 'The 3rd I' , will involve the camera taking pictures at one-minute intervals with the images being streamed live to a new Qatari museum called Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art.
The thumbnail-sized camera will be affixed to his head through a piercing-like attachment.
Bilal says the project is ‘a comment on the inaccessibility of time, and the inability to capture memory and experience.’
