Image Empire is the latest short film by Alan Warburton taking the form of a fairytale about the fusion of the real and the virtual within contemporary AI models. It is based on doctoral research undertaken at Birkbeck’s Vasari Centre for Art & Technology and acompanied by a White Paper, to be released on March 20th, 2026 (preview).
Photographs and 3D worlds were siblings once divided. An Image Empire rises now, two dynasties united.
Alan Warburton

