—By Elio Leturia MUSIC AND VISUALS! Join the Columbia College Chicago Music, Communication, and Design Departments, in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and the Chicago Chapter of the Fulbright Association for a special live interactive music remix and data visualization show/talk with award-winning Spanish artist/architect Rubén Alonso.
The screening will be followed by a Q & A with Rubén Alonso, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Málaga, Spain.
DATE Monday March 9, 2020
TIME 6:30pm – 8:00pm
LOCATION Hokin Lecture Hall, Columbia College Chicago, 623 S. Wabash Ave., first floor, Room 109, Chicago, IL 60605
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COST FREE
About the project
Antropoloops is an audiovisual global artistic project that remixes musical pieces from fragments of traditional music from around the world while showing graphically where they come from; all done with the utmost respect to the original sources highlighting their value.
The two basic principles of the project are not modifying the original pitch of the music they use, and visualizing and opening up the remixing process. Since its origin in 2012, the project has been developing a creative approach to ethnomusicology, which has gradually opened towards its educational and historic possibilities, generating new synergies with other artists.
About the artist Rubén Alonso, Barcelona 1973
While studying architecture in Berlin in the late 1990s, Rubén fantasized about the romantic notion of the traveling ethnomusicologist who collects songs around the world, but the journey would begin years later, through the distributed archive of the web and from the music remix culture with the artistic project Antropoloops that he has been developing with Esperanza Moreno since 2012.
Architect Rubén Alonso teaches architecture at the University of Málaga, Spain.
With 4 albums published, the project has been presented in several festivals and spaces, both nationally and internationally (Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Chile, Argentina), as well as in several TEDx talks. The project has been developing a creative approach to ethnomusicology which has gradually opened towards its educational and historic possibilities, generating new synergies. He is also a member of the folk music group Las Buenas Noches.
As an Architect he is co-founder of the lapanaderia architecture studio (2003-2013) whose work has been recognized in national and international spheres and published in specialized press and magazines. He has co-directed research projects on housing as a process, adaptability in collective housing, low-cost public housing, and has been co-developer of the collective processes platform masqueunacasa.org. He has a PhD in Architecture from the University of Málaga and an Official Master in Social Sciences and Social Intervention from the University Pablo de Olavide in Seville. Since 2010 he is an associate professor at the School of Architecture in Málaga and also shares his centrifugal approach to architecture with Esperanza Moreno at estudiopack.
ELIO LETURIA, PERUVIAN Fulbright Scholar to the U.S., Chicago Chapter Fulbright Board Member, and associate professor in the Communications Department at Columbia College Chicago is presenting his “No Literal” exhibit at the 
This event will also serve as fundraiser for the Fulbright Chicago Chapter and the cost for all attendees is $8.
Following the film screening, local singer and actress 
The Chicago Chapter of the Fulbright Association invites you to the screening of “Tita Turns 100,” a bilingual (Spanish-English) documentary produced and directed by Elio Leturia (left), 
After the short film, local singer 
OUR FULBRIGHT FRIEND, alumna and supporter Judy Veramendi is presenting her play “Alegrías y Lágrimas” (Happiness and Tears) directed by Ruth Camargo.
FULBRIGHT CHICAGO 