Introducing the YouTube Channel that sits inside my PhD exploring Generative Technologies in the Visual Arts
For the past few years, I have been exploring how generative AI is reshaping the visual arts and what it feels like to make work in the middle of rapid technological change. My PhD is built around my studio practice, which means making things, reflecting on them, and documenting the process.
My practice moves between paint, clay, digital tools, and generative systems. I have always worked fluidly, but bringing AI into the studio created a new kind of friction. It was not only technical. It was cultural. Artists everywhere are navigating this space with excitement, suspicion, curiosity, and resistance. I wanted to understand that negotiation from inside my own practice and to document it as it unfolds. To do that, I am building a YouTube channel called Unicorn Vomit: Art in the Generative Era.
Artists often keep journals, process notes, studio photographs, and conversations with peers. But art practice also happens in public digital spaces where people share work, test ideas, meet community response in real time, and increasingly find themselves competing with artificial creativity. This channel allows me to extend my studio into that public space and treat it as part of the inquiry.
Through vlogs and video essays, I can show my thinking as it develops. This includes experiments, failures, ethical questions, and shifts in understanding. These videos become part of the research record. They capture the messy middle rather than polished conclusions. They also help me see how people interpret, challenge, or complicate the ideas I am working through. This gives me a sense of the cultural temperature around AI in the visual arts and documents my evolving relationship with generative tools.
What the channel will explore
The content will sit at the intersection of art practice, technology, and cultural conversation. Some episodes will be quiet studio vlogs. Others will be structured video essays. Across the series, I will explore how generative AI intersects with traditional media, the ethics of image scraping and dataset construction, authorship and agency in hybrid human and machine workflows, community reactions and anxieties, the practical realities of integrating AI into a studio practice, and the cultural narratives shaping how artists talk about technology.
This is not a channel about how to use AI tools. It is a channel about what it means to use them and how artists can navigate this moment with integrity, curiosity, and critical awareness.
What is coming next…
The first videos will introduce the project, the studio, and the questions driving the research. After that, the series will follow the work as it evolves, including the ceramics, paintings, and generative experiments that form the material outcomes of the PhD.
If you are interested in the future of art, the ethics of AI, or the lived experience of practice led research, I would love to have you along. The channel launches soon (date TBA), the research continues, and these conversations about generative creativity in the Visual arts are only just beginning.