Dr. Harald Kraemer teaches at ISEA2016 co-host City University of Hong Kong and is the

curator of ISEA2016 juried exhibition. He is a ‘wanderer’ between the worlds: a trained Media / 

Design / Art Historian who is also working as a ‘Gestalter’ of online and offline hypermedia 

applications as well as system analyst for collection management systems and museums. He has 

studied Art History, Classical Archeology and History at the universites of Trier, Vienna and 

Witten/Herdecke as well as Museum Studies and Curatorship at the Institute of Cultural Sciences 

in Vienna. As a consultant for media in museums, documentation management and digital 

collections, he has worked with almost 40 museums, archives and libraries in Austria, Germany 

and Switzerland. Furthermore he has developed and produced more than 60 hypermedia 

applications (interactive stories, CD-ROM, kiosk system, DVD-ROM), websites, and learning 

courses for museums and universities. He has written and published widely on the subject of 

hypermedia, digital collections, documentation as well as contemporary art. For 

TRANSFUSIONEN, he has edited and designed several books about contemporary art. Already 

during his studies in the 1980s, he opened an art gallery and since that time he has worked as a 

‘Ausstellungsmacher’. In 2012 J. Stoll and H. Kraemer have founded ‘lotsremark’ and opened this 

offspace for art projects in Basel with the exhibition ‘DYSPOSITIVE. M. Broodthaers & G. 

Steinmann’.