Faculty Fellow
Associate Arts Professor, Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts
Wafaa Bilal is an Associate Arts Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a contemporary artist known internationally for his on-line performative and interactive works provoking dialogue about international politics and internal dynamics. His area of research mainly focuses on dynamic encounters and their significance to life in our increasingly mediated world, the role of the artist who initiates a platform for encounters, viewer-participants who engage and co-author the narrative, as well as agency, viewership, and platforms for participation. He is the author of “Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun,” about his life and the Domestic Tension project, a performance where Bilal spent a month in a Chicago gallery with a paintball gun people could use to shoot him over the internet.