美國教授將攝像頭植入後腦勺

大多數學生都擔心老師的後腦勺上長眼睛盯着自己，可是美國紐約大學攝影系伊拉克裔教授瓦法•比拉爾日前卻提出一個名爲“第三隻眼”的驚人創意未來數週內他將通過手術在自己的後腦勺中植入一個拇指大小的攝像頭，每隔一分鐘拍攝一張照片。

“第三隻眼”計劃應卡塔爾首都多哈市馬沙夫博物館委託，作爲“阿拉伯現代藝術”展覽的一部分。該博物館將於下月正式開放。比拉爾用“後眼”所拍攝的照片首先被輸入數據庫存，然後通過網絡源源不斷地實時傳送至萬里之外的多哈市馬沙夫博物館展出。據主辦方馬沙夫博物館介紹，“第三隻眼”計劃的主題是反映“時間的不可存取性，以前記憶和經驗的不可捕捉性”。該展覽歷時半年，時間從今年12月至明年5月。

A New York University Arts professor might not have eyes on the back of his head, but he's coming pretty close. Wafaa Bilal, a visual artist widely recognized for his interactive and performance pieces, had a small digital camera implanted in the back of his head — all in the name of art.

Bilal said Tuesday that he underwent the procedure for an art project that was commissioned by a new museum in Doha, Qatar, in the Arab Gulf.

Titled "The 3rd I," it is one of 23 contemporary works commissioned for the opening of the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art on Dec. 30. The exhibition is entitled "Told/Untold/Retold."

"I am going about my daily life as I did before the procedure," the Iraqi-born artist said in a statement.

Bilal, who is teaching three courses this semester at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, will wear the camera for one year. It is 2 inches in diameter and less than an inch thick.

The project will raise "important social, aesthetic, political, technological and artistic questions," he said.

He declined to say when the camera was implanted or other details of the art installation, saying it "will be revealed to the public as part of the museum preview on Dec. 15" and on a website to be launched on the same day, .

He said he chose to have it put in the back of the head as an allegorical statement about the things we don't see and leave behind.

How it all fits together is still a bit of a mystery.

The camera will capture his everyday activities at one-minute intervals 24-hours a day and then be transmitted to monitors at the museum, said curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath of Art Reoriented, who commissioned Bilal on behalf of the museum.

"He doesn't have to alter his lifestyle or what he does. In principal, he's moving on with his life," Bardaouil told The Associated Press from Doha. "It will be a three-dimensional, real space-and-time experience. Once the piece is revealed, you'll realize that the camera is only one aspect of the work and there are aspects as important that will be experienced."

Bilal said "The 3rd I" builds on his other body of work that combines performance art, digital and body art and photography "into a unique conceptual piece."