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In the Crosshairs

Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal invited people to shoot him, and got all too many takers

By Kari Lydersen

When Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal decided to sequester himself in a Chicago art gallery for 42 days with a paintball gun that people could aim and fire at him over the Internet, he thought he might get a few shots per day. He never guessed that by day 20, more than 40,000 shots would be fired and that hackers would program… return to article

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