''We are all cyborgs now'' - Donna Harraway This quote suggests we are all cyborgs because we incorporate alot of technology into our lives. These days technology has become an extension to us as people, almost everywhere we go we are using some form of technology to make our lives better in some way. iPods, mobile phones, TV's, laptops.. the list goes on.
Wafaa Bilal is an artist and professor who once had a camera surgically fitted to the back of his head, this camera took a photo every single minute. Bilal intended on having this camera there for a whole year but his body rejected the camera so he had to have it removed before the year was complete. The photos posted live onto his website for viewers to track.
Wafaa Bilal is an artist and professor who once had a camera surgically fitted to the back of his head, this camera took a photo every single minute. Bilal intended on having this camera there for a whole year but his body rejected the camera so he had to have it removed before the year was complete. The photos posted live onto his website for viewers to track.
These photos are some of the photos of which the camera fitted tot he back of his head took in August 2011. I like the idea of this work, it captures and hold memories. Everywhere he has been for the amount of time he had the camera has been captured and saved. These photos show a journey and an outlook onto someone elses life. This is a new way of seeing for us as viewers and for Bilal himself; for us because we're looking at someone elses life and for him because it's a backwards view, it's what he doesn't see normally. The whole aspect of looking at something through a different viewpoint interests me, I might use this idea somehow within my project.
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