Harald Kraemer
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative Media, Associate Professor
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
ISEA2020
Harald Kraemer. Since his PhD in Art History on Museum Informatics & Digital Collections and his MA in Museum and Curatorial Studies, he has been involved in more than 120 museum projects including numerous collection management databases and interactive media applications such as Virtual Transfer Musée Suisse, Artcampus or Vienna Walk. He curated and designed exhibitions like ISEA2016 in Hong Kong, The Age of Experience (HK 2015/Vienna 2016) or Interval in Space (Nairs/HK 2017). Kraemer has written and published widely on hypermedia design, museum informatics, digital collections, and contemporary art.
ISEA2019
Harald Kraemer is currently Associate Professor at School of Creative Media of City University of Hong Kong and Head of the Curating Art & Media stream of the Master of Arts in Creative Media program. Since his PhD in Art History on Museum Informatics & Digital Collections and his MA in Museum and Curatorial Studies, he has been involved in more than 60 museum management projects and he has produced more than 120 interactive online and offline applications. He curated and designed exhibitions like ISEA2016 in Hong Kong, The Age of Experience (HK 2015 / Vienna 2016) or Interval in Space (Nairs / HK 2017). Kraemer has written and published widely on hypermedia design, museum informatics, digital collections, and contemporary art. Recent publications: The Age of Experience. Hong Kong ‒ Vienna. Exhibition Strategy & Reflection (2017); Robert Lettner. Das Spiel vom Kommen und Gehen (2018). Coming Publication: Multimedia Classics ‒ Hypermedia Hermeneutics. Museums and their Digital Intangible Heritage (2020).
ISEA2011
Harald Kraemer is producer, designer and director of online and offline hypermedia applications. He received a PhD in History of Art from the University Trier/Moselle (Germany) on Museum Informatics and Digital Collections and a Diploma in Museum Curatorship from the Institute of Cultural Sciences, Vienna, Austria. Some of his projects: ‘Aura’ (1994) media space in the exhibition at the Vienna Secession; ‘Vienna Walk Demo’ (1998) prototype of an interactive DVD-ROM with Science Wonder Productions; ‘Art and Industry’ (2000) media for the exhibition at the MAK – Austrian Museum of applied Arts, Vienna; ‘Documentation and Methodology of Contemporary Art’ (1999-2001) for the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Cologne; ‘Virtual Transfer Musée Suisse’ (2002-2003); ‘Artcampus’ (2005-2007) for the University of Berne ’69-96 Linksalternative Szene in Konstanz’. He has written and published widely on the subject of hypermedia, museum informatics, digital collections, documentation as well as contemporary art. After teaching art history and new media at the universities in Berne, Cologne, Constance, Luneburg and Zurich, he is recently Docent for CAST at the Department for Design at Zurich Academy of Arts and at the Department for Image Sciences at Danube University Krems. Supported by a grant of the Hofer-Wild-Stiftung Berne he is currently working on a publication about Hypermedia Communication Design & Museum. Focal points in research: Knowledge Hypermedia Design online and offline, knowledge transfer, cognitive design, cross media art, and contemporary art.
Last Known Location:
- Hong Kong
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Title: Repulse the Beat: Teaching Cast and the Strategy Of Deceleration
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ISEA2011
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Title: Conjunctions And Disjunctions: Resonators At The Exhibition
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ISEA2016
Title: Imitation-Classification–Construction: Vessels of Vanitas and the Changing Meaning of Ornament
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