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Many teachers would probably want to have eyes in the back of their head to watch their
pupils. A New York-based artist has done just that. Wafaa Bilal had a tiny camera implantedinto the back of his head, which will then send photographs to a museum in Qatar.Stephanie Hancock reports:
To have the camera installed in the back of his head, Iraqi-born Wafaa Bilal had to undergo a
painful surgical procedurevowed to go about his daily life
to tuck the camera firmly under his scalp.The camera is at least small - just the size of a thumbnail and less than an inch thick - but itwill be switched on 24 hours a day for an entire year.The camera will take a photograph every single minute, digitally capturing every aspect ofWafaa Bilal's life.The images will then be beamed from New York, where the artist lives, to the Middle East,where the photographs will be displayed at Qatar's new Arab Museum of Modern Art.The artist says the project will raise important social, political and artistic questions, and has as normal.But he admits some things, like sleeping for example, will be a bit tricky.He now has to sleep sitting upright, and cannot use a pillow..,
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