18-11-2010, 06:51 PM
Installing a camera in.. the back of your head!
A professor, (Bilal, who teaches photography and imaging at NYU's Tisch School of Arts), is to have a camera surgically installed into the back of his head. The tiny camera will take a photo every minute, then transmit the images to monitors in a Qatar museum. The project is to be named "The 3rd I"
I bet you've had someone ask you what you did over the weekend and you've completely blanked out. Next time, you can show them!
According to his colleagues, the tiny camera will be secured to his head via a piercing-like attachment. Over the course of a year, photographs will be taken at one-minute intervals and fed directly to monitors in the museum. Assuming this occurs with some immediacy, much of the footage viewable during the museum’s open hours may be of Bilal sleeping. (Over a year amounting to around 2,920 hours spent photographing his pillow.)
Despite the restrictions on campus and time spent sleeping, Bilal’s camera will capture thousands of hours worth of images that Mathaf museum curators hope will serve as "a comment on the inaccessibility of time, and the inability to capture memory and experience.”
This action has already sparked concerns about privacy.
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A professor, (Bilal, who teaches photography and imaging at NYU's Tisch School of Arts), is to have a camera surgically installed into the back of his head. The tiny camera will take a photo every minute, then transmit the images to monitors in a Qatar museum. The project is to be named "The 3rd I"
I bet you've had someone ask you what you did over the weekend and you've completely blanked out. Next time, you can show them!
According to his colleagues, the tiny camera will be secured to his head via a piercing-like attachment. Over the course of a year, photographs will be taken at one-minute intervals and fed directly to monitors in the museum. Assuming this occurs with some immediacy, much of the footage viewable during the museum’s open hours may be of Bilal sleeping. (Over a year amounting to around 2,920 hours spent photographing his pillow.)
Despite the restrictions on campus and time spent sleeping, Bilal’s camera will capture thousands of hours worth of images that Mathaf museum curators hope will serve as "a comment on the inaccessibility of time, and the inability to capture memory and experience.”
This action has already sparked concerns about privacy.