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 means for artists to work inside a rapidly changing technological landscape. This forms the center of my practice led PhD at UniSQ, where I am looking at authorship, agency, ethics, and community conversation through the lived reality of making things.
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 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 currently building a YouTube channel called Unicorn Vomit: Art in the Generative Era. It is not a promotional space. It is part of the research itself.
Practice led research often relies on journals, process notes, studio photography, and conversations with peers. But art practice also happens in public digital spaces where artists share work, test ideas, meet community response in real time, and increasingly find themselves competing with artificial creativity. The channel lets me extend my studio into that public space and treat it as a site of 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. The videos themselves act as reflexive artefacts that document my evolving relationship with generative AI and the wider conversation around it.
Together, these elements form a hypermedia research environment where studio practice, digital documentation, public dialogue, and critical reflection feed into one another.
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.