NBC: Pain Leads Art Professor to Remove "Third Eye" Camera From Head

Pain Leads Art Professor to Remove "Third Eye" Camera From Head

Artist had a camera installed on the back of his head for a performance project

A New York City professor's controversial art project is becoming quite a headache - literally.

Wafaa Bilal, an assistant arts professor at New York University, needed to remove the camera he had installed into the back of his head earlier this month because his body rejected the foreign object.

One of the three titanium posts holding his "third eye" was removed by surgery this Friday, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports, forcing him to find other means to continue with his photography project for a museum in Qatar.

"I'm determined to continue with it," Bilal told the Chronicle about "3rdi" which is described on his website as "a statement on surveillance, the mundane and the things we leave behind."

The camera, which was implanted between his skin and his skull in a L.A. tattoo shop, is rigged to shoot spontaneous photos every minute that live-stream to a website and screens at the Muthaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art.

But Bilal's cranial gadget proved to cumbersome and painful, with steroids and antibiotics unable to help.

The Iraqi-born artist is considering installing a lighter camera and alternate setups, but for now he is simply carrying the camera tied to the back of his neck, he told the Chronicle.

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Idiot.....great art requires suffering

I think it's more from emotional pain from everyone else on the planet laughing their heads off whenever he turned his back.

~Bang

Couldn't he just wear some type of helmet contraption? I can think of a lot of better options than having it surgically attached with titanium pins in a tattoo shop.