#kard re: teasers

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KARD ♥️ SOMIN 5th mini album re: concept photo

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KARD has released a set of individual concept images of Somin for their upcoming 5th mini-album “RE:” which features the title track “Ring the Alarm” & is scheduled to be released on June 22nd.

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KARD publica 1er teaser para su regreso de abril con el sencillo “Without You”.

KARD anunció oficialmente su regreso con el tercer sencillo digital “Without You” el cual se publicará más tarde esta semana el 10 de abril.

“Without You” será el primer regreso de KARD en casi 10 meses. La última publicaron su quinto mini álbum “Re:” y la canción principal “Ring The Alarm” en junio de 2022.

Fuente: soompi.com

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Somin Awali Perilisan Teaser Comeback KARD Mendatang Dengan "Re:"

Somin Awali Perilisan Teaser Comeback KARD Mendatang Dengan “Re:”

Grup co-ed ternama Korea Selatan, KARD, telah memulai suguhkan para penggemar teasernya menjelang comeback dengan mini album kelima mereka. Pada hari Senin, 13 Juni 2022 KARD telah menyuguhkan 6 foto teaser individu dari anggota wanitanya, Somin, yang tunjukkan tatapan dan penampilan seksi, yang mana dirilis dalam 2 konsep yang berbeda. KARD 5th Mini Album ‘Re:’ ♥ CONCEPT IMAGE ♥#JEONSOMIN…

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April 2017 ⋅ Really really really really

Fate Number For - WINNER 

Since last year, I had been waiting for Winner’s comeback with equal parts of excitement and dread; I couldn’t imagine what they would look and sound like after Taehyun’s tumultuous departure last year.

It seemed obvious to me that, with Seungyoon having free reign over songwriting, they would move towards the rock vibes of Immature. Instead, they pulled out some extra-trendy tropical house that I’ve grown to enjoy, but I’m still not too pleased with.

While I enjoyed Fool straight away, I am frustrated that they felt the need to add the tropical bleeps and bloops and the autotuned portions, while the instrumental (especially in the second part of the song) would have been more than enough and Winner are damn good singers. I did love that Minho and Seunghoon, who had always been confined to rapping, had the chance to sing and got parts that didn’t make them look like ...well, fools in comparison to Jinwoo and Seungyoon.

On the other hand, I really really disliked Really Really right from the teasers. I love it now and I think that if anyone else had put it out I would have been on my knees, but in my opinion it’s a bit too generic for Winner. I enjoyed their “fashionable” concept and, while in the live performances they still had some pretty great outfit, I do think that the song is the opposite of refined and the video is a garbage fire (“American” concepts are 100% the worst). I still get a bit frustrated with the “really really really really” hook, but I do love Seunghoon’s rap and that they sound like they are legitimately having fun while they sing. 

I can’t imagine what it would take for me not to enjoy a Winner comeback, and there is a lot to like in Really Really and Fool. Even though it’s not their usual thing, I do appreciate that they went for something slightly less moody and even had a choreography. Jinwoo, who had always been an afterthought with vocalists like Taehyun and Seungyoon, really had space to show his skills; he went from being constantly sidelined to really showing off his skills and personality in this comeback.

After watching dozens of Really Really performances, I can tell with certainty that my greatest fear for this comeback didn’t come true. I was terrified that without Taehyun, who had always been the centre of the group, Winner would somehow struggle or seem “broken”. However, the remaining members seem to have found a new (better?) balance and have great chemistry on stage. If I didn’t know that there was a member missing, I wouldn’t think about it for one second.

I understand that Winner needed a really successful comeback to re-establish their brand after the continuous mishaps (if we can call them that) that they suffered, but I do hope that they will move away from the flavour of the week in their next comeback. It’s good to see that they’re still as weird as usual in their live performances, at least.

Coloring Book - Oh My Girl

Oh My Girl were one of the first third-generation girl groups that caught my attention; my love story with them started with last year’s Liar Liar and kind of faded away with the following comebacks, so I’m glad to see them with something almost as interesting/unique.

While I don’t think Coloring Book is nearly as iconic as Liar Liar, I do feel that it will help solidify Oh My Girl’s image as a group that manages to go beyond plain cute concepts (even though that’s how they started).

I’m glad to see that they’re sticking with energetic lead singles rather than going back to softer songs like Closer, and that they’re mixing it up rather than going for another hooky song like Liar Liar (and were possibly inspired by Walk Like an Egyptian for the bridge?). I think that 90% of what I’ve read about this song was negative, but I love the weird melody and don’t think that the brass section is that offensive.

The rest of the album does an equally good job adding a twist to the usual girl group recipe. My obvious favourites are Real World and Perfect Day, which have a touch of (harmless) rock and an anthemic choruses. While I love Coloring Book, I do wish that they had gone with Perfect Day as the lead single, even just to set themselves apart and maybe try a new direction.

Eclipse - EXID

I know that history will side against me when I say that I didn’t like EXID’s 2016 album Street, but if it helps at all, I think that Eclipse will be one of my favourite albums of 2017.

It would have been completely reasonable and expected of EXID to come out with a song that married the latest trends, especially since they’re temporarily short of one member, but they didn’t. They brought back Shinsadong Tiger (I don’t think it’s a coincidence I hadn’t liked the only single not produced by him) and released a song that’s mixes disco, jazz and (more familiar) R&B, and definitely more mature than anything they’ve done before.

Even though they are incredibly talented, EXID aren’t necessarily a group that people go to for the music (as opposed to, I don’t know, Hani’s legs). I think and hope that this will change after Eclipse and Night Rather Than Day, because I can’t imagine that even the slimiest and perviest of old dude fans would be able to ignore the quality of the songs and the members’ voices.

It would have been easy to write 75% of the parts for the powerhouse vocalist of the group, Hyerin, leaving the scraps to the others. Even after hundreds of listens, I am surprised by how carefully Junghwa’s parts were created to suit her voice (even though she’s supposedly the dancer of the group), how Hani finally got to sing in her lower register rather than the usual baby voice, how LE does more than just the usual rap bridges. Even for a mini, the quality of the songwriting and production is insane.

It’s a pity that Solji isn’t a part of this comeback, because I do think that it signals a real shift in priorities when it comes to EXID’s image and what their strong points are. I think that we’re finally moving past the fancam days and into an era that will cement EXID as the fantastic, versatile group they are.

Breaking Sensation - SF9

I couldn’t tell you the first thing about SF9, but I think this might change in the near future. If there is something that I have rarely seen/heard in k-pop, it’s boy groups taking more than the idea and the aesthetic from 1990s Western boy groups.

SF9’s latest mini album Breaking Sensation is a 1990s extravaganza: it has back spinning, scratching, excessive use of pianos, angry ballads, songs that don’t have a single actual instrument in them and most of all Watch Out, the Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) of 2017.

I don’t know if there was anything intentional in this array of songs, but I’ve been listening to this album way more than any other rookie boy group’s.

More songs of note

Good Night - Dreamcatcher

I was terrified that Dreamcatcher would do a 180° with their concept and go back to more traditional girl group stuff, but their new single is possibly even more metal-oriented and darker than the previous one. At this point I love them enough to learn their names.

Flower - Dean Who thought that I would be so in need of a Dean song that I’d accept a commercial as a new release?

Mannequin - DIA I can’t think of anything that has frustrated me more this month that hearing DIA’s demented new main single and then seeing them play their other songs live, which they will never get to do on a music show.

I’m Serious & Say Wow - Day6

Palette & Can’t Love You Anymore - IU

Rumor - KARD

Pattern - Lee Hae Ri

Hwi Hwi & Heaven and Earth - Laboum

Make Me Love You - Taeyeon

Dream in a Dream - Ten

She’s a Baby - Zico

Strays

The Japanese video for Monsta X’s Hero is everything

Red Velvet doing an acoustic version of Would U

I hope someone at SM and YG is crying because they let Jinho and Hongseok go

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The project Image+

Photography today can take on multiple forms, both material and immaterial: from print to pixel, from the page to the screen, from static images to moving images. What are the challenges and opportunities for image-makers and editors who wish to critically explore the hybrid nature of photography? What are the contemporary practices in working with images and distributing them? What does editing mean in the age of information overflow, and how can we think of alternative publishing strategies for the new image? What are the new platforms for the “post-photographer”?

Four artists have been invited to discuss these themes in a series of workshops being offered to small groups of professionals, and to create works with the participants. The results of the workshops are exhibited in the context of the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography.

Curation: Marco de Mutiis and Hélène Joye-Cagnard

Participating artists: Sebastian Schmieg, Ola Lanko, Kamilia Kard, Emmanuel Crivelli

Image+ is produced by Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography in collaboration with Fotomuseum Winterthur's SITUATIONS programme.

Sebastian Schmieg (1983, Germany) examines the ways in which modern technologies shape online and offline realities, including the hidden logics and politics of algorithmic image and computer vision.

sebastianschmieg.com

Workshop Sebastian Schmieg

During the workshop, participants were introduced to the field of computer vision: Machines recognizing objects within photos or identifying specific people, analyzing their mood and tracking their behavior; and machines learning to synthesize new images, visualizing the concepts they are being taught. Following a discussion of the ethical implication and of the absence of photographers in the development of this technology and regime, participants assembled their own image data sets on which a computer would be trained. In a second step, a so called artificial intelligence looked at these images for several hours, internalizing the concepts and aesthetic of each image archive. In a last step, this algorithm created a series of new images based on what it had learned. During this process, participants received messages sent back in time from their future selves. As time had progressed, the workshop participants seemed to have either integrated machine vision into their practice, or to have been integrated into the process of seeing machines.

Sebastian Schmieg featuring Rebecca Bowring (Image+ Workshop 2017)

Participants Sebastian Schmieg

Simon Tanner Patrick Pfeiffer Rebecca Bowring

Kamilia Kard (1981, Hungary/Italy) focuses in her work on the construction of identity in the internet age, and is manifested in multiple media, ranging in a fluid way from painting to video, animated gifs, prints and installations. 

kamiliakard.org

Workshop Kamilia Kard

Through the course of the workshop the participants worked with Kamilia Kard to explore the physicality of the digital image and its new role in the post-internet era. Inverting the traditional photographic process of flattening our experience into an image, the artist starts from the reality on our screen and transports it to the physical world through plotter and 3D printing. Resulting in what Josephine Bosma describes “an 'archive of the virtual' [that] starts to be complimentary to the online 'archive of the real’.”

Kamilia Kard featuring Dana Popescu, Jonas Kambli and Marie-Pierre Cravedi (Image+ Workshop 2017)

Participants Workshop Kamilia Kard

Dana Popescu Jonas Kambli Marie-Pierre Cravedi

Ola Lanko (1985, Ukraine) explores parallels between knowledge and history constructed by images, big data and free access to information. She works with metaphors and allusions, rearranging them in a new non-linear narratives.

olalanko.com

Workshop Ola Lanko

For the duration of 6 hours a group of people was invited to work with the archives and develop a small body of work that will revitalise the archives and use the material in new contexts.

As archiving increasingly becomes a regular part of everyone’s daily routine, so too does the need to rethink the ways in which archives are being used . We are simultaneously archiving and forgetting. Every day, billions of new data points are created and preserved, most of which simply ends on storage devices, never to be revisited or reused, and hence forgotten. The act of collection, preservation and accumulation appears to be more important than the information itself. Quantity has replaced quality as a standard of measurement, acquiring currency as a means to assign value to information. Likes, shares, followers and friends determine the merit of things, people and phenomena in the global virtual archive. In the economy of information, things that are copied acquire greater value as they multiply, judged as they are on their ubiquity rather than on the nature and meaning of their content itself.

Owing as much to their operational rules, structure and framework as to the nature of the stored bits of information, archives never contain the full picture of anything. An archive is at once a coherent space and a fractured one. This illusion of completeness is problematic, and limits one’s exibility when working with archives. Anxiety over re-contextualising or altering data in any way results in forgetting. Yet, a visit to an archive represents the possibility for new perspectives on the contemporary, and the chance to position it on the continuum of me.

Archives are often rich and always full of surprises. Each box, folder, book or album contains hidden narratives, forms and emotions. Visiting an archive is often a fulfilling and exciting voyage, the experience and outcome of which help us to be er navigate the present and chart or prepare for the future through our better understanding of our connection to the past. In an age where questions are being asked of the linearity of time, archives represent a means to explore a complex system of fractured linearities and rearrange them for the creation of new ideas.

Ola Lanko featuring Marion Nitsch (Image+ workshop 2017)

Participants Workshop Ola Lanko

Damien Sivier Massimo Piovesan Karina Munch Reyes Marion Nitsch Rosario Mazuela Thomas Nie

Emmanuel Crivelli (1985, Switzerland) is an editorial designer playing with photography, illustrations and text. His publications range widely from opera posters to quarterly issues on gender and sexuality.

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Workshop Emmanuel Crivelli

With this workshop we created a newspaper as a curatorial space for the pictures of the Fotomuseum’s collection.

“Suicidal reproduction” is the term used for animals who lose their lives when they reproduce, such as the praying mantis. The name of this fanzine provokes, ironically, the question of the death of the reproduction of photography nowadays and at the same time gives an attractive and a punk tone to the newspaper, declaring a free, experimental, and possibly brutal, work on the images to produce a new reading of the collection.

“Araki & Friends”: every issue of this fanzine is a focus on a photographer, in this case I chose Araki. Participants had to react to a chosen image by associating other photos of the collection, in a formal or narrative way. And then they had to associate the statements of the new museum identity (svg) to give a further question about photography. An index with the captions of the images is visible in the fanzine.

As for the digital declination, the sequence of the two or more images associated with the statement (svg) is translated in a GIF. This exercise allows to rethink a sequence or collage on a different format and act as a teaser for the magazine as well.

This project question the main points of editing (the editorial concept, what is being said, the rhythm of a sequence, etc.) and the contemporary communication strategies in the editorial world, in a concrete context: the collection of the Fotomuseum.

Emmanuel Crivelli featuring Natalia Mansano and Miriam Elias (Image+ Workshop 2017)

Participants Workshop Emmanuel Crivelli

Natalia Mansano Miriam Elias

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KARD ♦️ JIWOO | re: concept photo

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KARD has released a set of individual concept images of Jiwoo for their upcoming 5th mini-album “RE:” which features the title track “Ring the Alarm” & is scheduled to be released on June 22nd.

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KARD has released the track list for their upcoming 5th mini-album “RE:” which features the title track “Ring the Alarm” & is scheduled to be released on June 22nd.

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KARD has released a set of group & unit concept images for their upcoming 5th mini-album “RE:” which features the title track “Ring the Alarm” & is scheduled to be released on June 22nd.

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KARD has released a set of individual concept images of BM for their upcoming 5th mini-album “RE:” which features the title track “Ring the Alarm” & is scheduled to be released on June 22nd.

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KARD has released the scheduler for their upcoming 5th mini-album “RE:” which features the title track “Ring the Alarm” & is scheduled to be released on June 22nd.

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KARD has released an individual “RE: MEMBER” teaser video of J.seph ahead of their upcoming 5th mini-album “RE:” which is scheduled to be released on June 22nd.

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KARD has released an individual “RE: MEMBER” teaser video of Jiwoo ahead of their upcoming 5th mini-album “RE:” which is scheduled to be released on June 22nd.

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KARD has released an individual “RE: MEMBER” teaser video of Somin ahead of their upcoming 5th mini-album “RE:” which is scheduled to be released on June 22nd.

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KARD has released a set of individual concept images of J.Seph for their upcoming 5th mini-album “RE:” which features the title track “Ring the Alarm” & is scheduled to be released on June 22nd.