Sir, There’s a Camera in Your Head

November 17, 2010 | Source: The Wall Street Journal

Wafaa Bilal, an Iraqi photography professor at New York University, is implanting a camera in the back of his head to broadcast a live stream of images, once a minute, from the camera to visitors to a new museum in Qatar.

The work is sparking a debate on campus over the competing values of creative expression and student privacy.

The artwork, titled “The 3rd I,” is intended as “a comment on the inaccessibility of time, and the inability to capture memory and experience,” according to press materials from the museum, known as Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art.

No, this is not a story from the Onion. – Ed.