An abstract audiovisual work reimagining the visual language of Little Red Riding Hood through AI-assisted transformation, fragmentation, and recombination. A Black girl in a red cloak navigates a surreal AI-transformed forest; the central twist reveals the wolf is the real grandmother (trapped and transformed) while the grandmother figure was the wolf in disguise — a story of love as discernment. Drawing from Vilém Flusser’s ideas on play, apparatuses, and technical images.
Deonna Pope is a violinist and ethnomusicology scholar based in Los Angeles, currently pursuing a PhD in Ethnomusicology at UC Riverside. Her research focuses on Black musical traditions and contemporary subgenres. She has been a member of the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles since 2016, performing annually at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and also performs with the UCR Orchestra and the UCR Javanese Gamelan.