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.

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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Dated 2011-02-11