One of the dilemmas I have with being alive and writing what is essentially an arts blog in 2026 is I never know how to feel about AI. In the past year, it’s started to intrude everywhere. I even tried an experiment recently where I did my own research for a post, then had AI do the same research and compared the results.* I am constantly on the fence between terror and fascination with the tool, but I have to acknowledge that some artists, like today’s amazing creator, have definitely harnessed AI for good, at least for now.
*F.Y.I., the AI pulled from the sources I typically use, but also brought in information from some questionable sources and one factoid that I wasn’t able to find anywhere on the internet. So no, it’s not replacing me quite yet.
Kelly Eldridge Boesch calls the universe in which she plays an AI Dreamworld, and characterizes it as an experiment in storytelling. She conducts her tools, Midjourney (images), VEO3 (animation) and Suno (background music), as if she were the maestro and they were the instruments. Her videos are glimpses into weird, wonderful worlds, and I find them fascinating, funny, and a little uncomfortable (which I like). They’re mostly music/dance videos, and the music she uses is all very palatable. A bit forgettable, maybe, but a nice accompaniment to the dancing weirdos. And a few of her works have a more narrative structure. I think they’re all very interesting.
“…a portal into the surreal, the cinematic, and the soul-powered, where every video is a bold experiment in storytelling through AI. I am a visual artist, designer, and editor on a mission to blur the lines between human emotion and machine imagination.”
You can check out all of Kelly Boesch’s weirdly wonderful AI art on her website and on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook.
Note: If you’d rather not sit through all the videos below (I may have gotten a bit carried away), the first and last are definitely worth your time.
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January 30, 2026 at 8:16 am
Loved the cooking show video
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January 30, 2026 at 12:05 pm
Isn’t that wild?
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January 31, 2026 at 3:54 am
Absolutely
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January 30, 2026 at 1:51 pm
The first, the last and the cooking show! Oh, she is good!!
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January 31, 2026 at 1:20 pm
I think it’s all fascinating. I’d love to know what prompts she’s using to get such unusual characters.
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January 30, 2026 at 3:31 pm
I did not have time to watch them all but I checked out a few of the videos and I think there is at least a clear artistic point of view with these AI generated videos in that there is a coherent style and cohesive aesthetic that suggests a human artist making specific choices. It definitely does not qualify as “AI” slop.
I am, however, a committed Luddite who believes that the arts should remain a firmly human endeavor (or at least living creatures – keep painting, chimps!). I don’t like the importance of artistic expression as part of the human experience being diminished by farming it out to AI. I also suspect the quality is bound to collapse in on itself over time as it the AI becomes an ouroboros and regurgitate diminishing returns rather than – human-like – always looking to expand and stretch and push the boundaries and charter new territory.
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January 31, 2026 at 1:22 pm
I worry so much about what AI is doing to us. It’s so dangerous, especially now with our country so deeply divided. How are people who don’t do much research (or critical thinking) expected to know the difference between what’s real and what’s a deep fake?
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January 31, 2026 at 2:20 am
Thank you, Donna, for this. I watched every single video and enjoyed every single one.
I can see how AI could put human performers out of work, and of course I am against that. I totally agree with Laura (PA Pict)’s 2nd paragraph in her comment. I think live performance is safe for now.
I am still wary of AI, especially since almost being taken in by deep-fake news videos on YouTube. AI has great potential to create beauty, but also great potential to perpetrate evil.
You continue to amaze me with the things you introduce to me. You are a rock star.
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January 31, 2026 at 1:27 pm
Andrea, you’re a peach! Truth be told, most of my “finds” found me instead. I only post about things that grab me, but my algorithm is so broad and weird, I sometimes feel like every artist (in every discipline) would eventually cross my path if I were at it long enough.
And AI mostly gives me the yips, but I do enjoy Boesch’s work. At least if the machines do rise up, hers will be interesting to look at.
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February 5, 2026 at 9:16 am
As a sometimes student of Art History, there is always significant pushback when new methods of producing art come on the scene. Photography was every bit as threatening to classic painters as AI is to non-computer based artists right now, or how threatened realist painters felt by abstraction, Impressionism, etc.
Impressionism in particular was responding to the SCIENCE of the time and how they *thought* vision worked–that the eye saw impressions and the brain then clarified what was being seen. This wasn’t correct, but it was the cutting edge of the time.
Even now, watercolor painting is less “valued” than oil because it’s faster and was considered useful only for preparatory sketching.
All that to say; AI can be a tool, like any other, for realizing artistic vision. Most of what will be produced with it is garbage (seeing everyone posting weird AI portraits of themselves this week, for example) but some, like this artist, will use the tool to create something unique and original that actually qualifies as “art.”
The first artist that I fell in love with who uses only computer aided tools is Ray Ceaser, and I find his work compelling, delightfully weird, and fascinating since there is no hard original–it’s fascinating.
I think, to close this essay, that the bigger concerns with AI are the theft of other artist’s work to “train” it, the exploitation of workers in other countries who receive a pittance to teach it things like “this is CSA” (60 Minutes has a solid report on this horrific practice) and the incredible environmental damage it does so that we can see what it thinks we look like for entertainment, etc. We are currently fighting an AI center here that will use millions of gallons of water, strain the electrical grid, and otherwise become a blight in a poor, drought stricken area of a relativey poor, drought-stricken state.
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February 5, 2026 at 10:48 am
What a fascinating perspective. I never thought about photography as being a threat to artists, but of course it must have been. And certainly new art forms always shake things up. I feel so much clearer about that aspect of it now. Of course, the threats to intellectual property, the environment, and humanity in general still give me the yips. Hope you’re successful at resisting the AI center. One of the benefits of living in NYC is that the real estate is way too expensive to even consider such a thing.
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February 6, 2026 at 9:35 am
The first person to invent a sewing machine (ahead of Mr Singer) so frightened the tailors in (I think) France that a mob chased him out of town and tried to kill him. We pretty consistently freak out about innovation, particularly innovation that we perceive as taking work out of someone’s literal hands. It’s a fascinating contrast–we pursue and laud ingenuity but we also retreat to the back of the cave when Grog shows up with fire.
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February 6, 2026 at 11:08 am
That Grog is such an ass.
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February 14, 2026 at 6:33 pm
Love your music KB. I’ve got a whole playlist now. Can’t stop playing it.
Speading it to friends!!
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February 15, 2026 at 12:13 pm
I agree. I think the music is every bit as intriguing as the videos!
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