New York professor installs camera in head - CNN.com

New York professor installs camera in head - CNN.com: "By Laura Dolan, CNN
December 2, 2010 9:22 p.m. EST


Artist embeds camera in head
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
A New York University Professor installed a thumb-sized camera in back of his head for art exhibit
Iraqi born photography professor had the procedure done at a piercing studio last month
The camera will take a single snap-shot each minute of everyday activities for one year
(CNN) -- Some students joke that their teachers have eyes in the backs of their heads.
A New York University professor is now closer to that reality, having had a camera surgically implanted into the back of his cranium.
Wafaa Bilal, an Iraqi born photography professor at the university's Tisch School of the Arts, had the procedure done at a piercing studio last month for an art project commissioned by a museum in Doha, Qatar, he said.
'This will expose the unspoken conditions we face,' Bilal said Thursday. 'A project like this is meant to establish a dialogue about surveillance.'"