Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal, an Arts Professor at New York University's
Tisch School of the Arts, is known internationally for provoking dialogue about
international politics and internal dynamics through high profile,
technologically-driven projects that employ the use of robotics,
the internet, and photographic mobile mapping. Bilal’s work
explores tensions between the cultural spaces he occupies—his home in the
“comfort zone” of the U.S. and his consciousness in the “conflict zone” of Iraq.
Using his own body as a medium, Bilal continues to challenge
our comfort zone with projects like Domestic Tension,
3rd i, and Counting... Bilal received his MFA
in Art and Technology from SAIC and recently conferred the honorary
degree of Doctor of Performance Art by DePauw University.
He lives and works in New York City.
