Wafaa Bilal, a New York University photography professor who announced that he would have a camera inserted in the back of his head for an art project, issued a statement on Tuesday saying that the camera was successfully installed.
As part of the project, titled “The 3rd I,” the camera will take pictures at one-minute intervals. The images will be streamed to a computer database and then displayed on screens in a gallery in Qatar, as part of an exhibition organized by a new museum there.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Bilal, Mahdis Keshavarz, said that she did not know the details of the procedure to install the camera but that it was not dangerous and did not necessarily involve a doctor. The exhibition, which will open to the public on Dec. 30, is being curated by a team in New York, Till Fellrath and Sam Bardaouil.
In a statement last week N.Y.U. said that it was in talks with Mr. Bilal about the right way to ensure that his camera would not take pictures in university buildings, in order to protect students’ and faculty members’ privacy. A spokesman for the university, Richard Pierce, said on Tuesday that he did not have an update on those discussions.
