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You've wished you had a camera implant, right? We mean, it's pretty
common: you've been on the bus or the incline and something went down
and you were like, "I wish I was recording this right now." Well, we
know of at least two folks looking to replace their prosthetic eyes
with webcams, and now an artist living in New York wishes to sport an
implant of his own. Wafaa Bilal, an NYU photography professor, plans
on having a camera attached to a piercing on the back of his head for
one year. Throughout that time, still images will be taken at one
minute intervals and displayed at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in
Qatar. The work, titled "The 3rd I," is billed as "a comment on the
inaccessibility of time, and the inability to capture memory and
experience," although it really sounds like the dream of every teacher
and parent since time immemorial: to have eyes on the back of their
head. Of course, the privacy of Bilal's students is being taken into
consideration, although the school is not exactly sure how they're
handling that one yet -- either the camera will be covered while he
teaches or shut off altogether while in NYU buildings.
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