ExE open 9 July 2004

Exquisite Enclave Exquise
is a work by Jouke Kleerebezem: installation, print publication and Internet domain




introduction ExE other Internet related work short cv contact
Jouke Kleerebezem lives and works in and from St. Germain des Bois, France. He keeps his prime personal publication since 22 March 1998, delivered from the nqpaofu.com domain since 15 January 2000.

EnclavExquisE began its life in 1994, as a 4 sided running neon sign / SEN / CLA / VEX / QUI / SEN /, alternately reading ENCLAVE, EXQUISE, ENCLAVEXQUISE, &tc.




introduction ExE other Internet related work short cv contact
The ‘exquisite enclave’ first idea dates back to the early 1990s when with the rise of the public Internet and world wide web our work began to reflect online presence. At the time my credo (and email signature) was: Life on the Face of the Web — it's only NetURL. Coming from the arts community, in which during the 1980s, operating in the ‘forest of signs’ we had extensively challenged the ‘splendid isolation’ of the institutionalized ‘white cube’, I felt instantly at home in a ‘symbolic order’ which was definitely going to have yet another problematic relationship to the lived everyday... as much as to the authored realities of ‘old media’ art and literature. Also from a vivid ‘self publishing’ alternative press interest the new channel was promising, to say the least.

In 1993, first of all the Internet and web needed close investigation and investment.

Server-by-server the network rapidly spread to become today’s pervasive reality. Our lives are filled with email, mobile telecommunication, web search, file exchange and other forms of data sharing. While in the early years we distinguished RL from URL: real life from the media address — today the information and material realms have melted together. Welcome to the Early Information Age.

Relating a unique geographical location to a unique URL, which was exclusively to be displayed on that location, was an early interest. To address and gather a public which shared a real life experience — like visiting some exact location or turning a specific page — dawned as a possibility. The idea was challenged when a wrong URL had been published in a magazine ad for a Doors of Perception conference, I think ‘Home’ in 1994. Instead of pushing a rectification with the editors, by loading up the promotional information to that previously non-existent URL I could directly address those visitors who where sent to that address through a limited edition magazine page, which contained an otherwise unpublished and not linked from anywhere but that page web address. The web document ‘specifically’ welcomed those visitors who had shared such-and-such magazine page. Later I pencilled down a unique address in a guest book at Aulanko, Finland. Only those who visit the site, browse the guest book and take down the URL will have a lead to that HTML document in NQPaOFU.

ijsseloog.nl and drechtlog.com were, like the first Exquisite Enclave swiki for the 1998 @ve Festival, early attempts to knot together unique locations, both in geographical space and as time-specific events, with dislocated yet addressable, time based information in the network. The connectivity of the everyday environment to information space contributes to the idea of connected enclaves. Seemingly isolated entities unfold... only to appear closely attached to one another. Stories from one space develop into the other. Like with nested dolls, spaces contain spaces contain spaces. Stories contain stories contain stories, to build an irremediable narrative indeed. Ad infinitum.

All sites have become nodes in a network of exchange and recommendation. You drop stuff for me to pick up at my convenience. In exchange I leave stuff for you to pick up at your convenience. This is what I call ‘informationalization’, as it opposes ‘mediatization’. Both a democratic and egalitarian proposition and the last resort for professional intervention, informatic license lies in one-to-one or many-to-many communication, against the industry's claim of customized experience commodities.

As far as an ‘experience economy’ industrializes, porn has become this spectacle's default content, spam to be its format of choice. Its alarming presence occupies all of our subject lines. But network native magical thinking projects other vistas. Informatic license and the poetics of connectivity route around mass media preferences. Peer-to-peer recommendation and information sharing, on a completely different scale from the industry's, encounter force fed public consumption. Intimacy connects to intimacy in emerging information habits.




introduction ExE other Internet related work short cv contact
Notes Quotes Provocations and Other Fair Use, 1998- (nqpaofu.com)
Innovation and Design for Information Empowerment, 1999- (idie.enclavexquise.com)
Le Moulin du Merle, 2000- (lemoulindumerle.com)
Café de Tannay Studio, 2007- (cafedetannay.enclavexquise.com)
OffGoogle, 2003- (offgoogle.com)
Ubiscribe, 2003- (ubiscribe.net)
Drechtlog (2000-2005)
Letterproef (1997)
CUE (1996)
Shadowplay (1995-) (nqpaofu.com/shadowplay/sp)
Le Fossoir (2003-)

Interview as a Q/A on weblogging, by Raimundas Malasauskas, also with Caterina Fake and Paul Perry.




introduction ExE other Internet related work short cv contact
The shorter cv reads: 1972-1977 typography, photography, drawing, print studies; 1980-1990 De Zaak artists' space and Drukwerk De Zaak artists' magazine issues 1-42; 1992 Allocations curatorship and Van Abbemuseum personal exhibition The Irremediable Narrative; early 1990s Temporary Autonomous Zoo installation series with Paul Perry; 1993-1998 Internet media studies and projects, like at and with Mediamatic, Doors of Perception; Silicon Rally ‘cybrarian’: website, event and installation for Stroom hcbk; 1998-2000 starting the nqpaofu.com, idie.net, lemoulindumerle.com web projects; fall 1998 Le Moulin du Merle purchase; 2001-today Jan van Eyck Academie Advising Researcher; publications in De Witte Raaf; 2004 Ubiscribe publishing research project; ‘Exquisite Enclave Exquise’ at Museum de Paviljoens, enclavexquise.com and an Omnia Mea in Media first in a series of print publications: the ExE volume.

More detail might include more publications, which' online versions can be found via the NQPaOFU portal, and other dates:

2007-2008 Café de Tannay restoration project, Tannay F
2007 Café de Tannay Studio website
2007 Website Andrea Blum, New York USA
2006 Laboratory in Bassano del Grappa I
2006 Plateau publication design for Andrea Blum, New York USA
2006 Website Simone Maroux, Grenois F
2006 Misenmedia website
2006 Pervasive Personal Participatory Ubiscribe 0.90 printed-on-demand book w. Ubiscribe research group
2005 Offre & demande, publication at Het Kabinet, Ghent B
2005 L’étal du moulin, installation at Het Kabinet, Ghent B
2005 The Matching Link, symposium at Stroom Art and Architecture, The Hague NL
2005 Daily Operations, publication in ID magazine #309: ‘Design Liberated’, Tokyo JP
2004 Exquisite Enclave installation, printed publication and Internet domain, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere NL
2004 Fusedspace juror
2004-today Commissioning Editor of the Ubiscribe research project at the Jan van Eyck Academie Design Department
2003 Personal Publishing Pandemonium symposium organizer at the JvE
2002 Design Recast conference organizer at the JvE
2001-today Advising Researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie Design Department, organizing the Design Recast conference and Personal Publishing Pandemonium symposium.
1999-today Innovation and Design for Information Empowerment, in reaction to the First Things First 2000 manifesto
1998 Exquisite Enclave swiki, for the @ve festival, Arnhem NL
1998-today Notes Quotes Provocations and Other Fair Use, since 22 March
1996 Silicon Rally installation, event and website concept and curator, for Stroom hcbk the Hague NL
1995 Shadowplay, first personal website, first upload to an xs4all.nl server on 17 October, at 4:06am from New York, with Chris Remie
1995 TAZoo Temporary Autonomous Zoo IV Kiosque de combat, with Paul Perry, CAC Vilnius Lithuania, ‘New Balance’ exhibition, curated by Raimundas Malasauskas
1994-today ‘Doors of Perception’ conference series attendance and occasional collaboration, speaker at Doors 5, ‘Flow’ (Amsterdam 1999), DoorsEast 1 (Ahmedabad India 2001) and 2 (Bangalore India 2003)
1994-today Publications in different media
1993 ‘Doors of Perception’ first conference attendance, Amsterdam NL; ‘Bionomics’ first conference attendance, San Francisco
1992-1993 OCI, Office for Cultural Intelligence, with Jan van Grunsven, Arno van der Mark, Maarten de Reus, QS Serafijn, Willem van Weelden.
1992 Allocations — Art for a Natural and Artificial Environment exhibition co-curator, Floriade World Horticultural Exhibition, Zoetermeer/The Hague NL; Allocations book co-editor
1990 The Irremediable Narrative personal exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven NL
1988-1994 Mediamatic board member and occasional author, e.g. The Exuberant Publicness of the Promised World
1980-1990 De Zaak artists' space, Drukwerk De Zaak magazine issues 1-42
1972-1977 typography, photography, printing techniques and drawing studies at the Academie Minerva in Groningen NL
1953 born in Wassenaar the Netherlands




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email me as ‘jk’ at the NQPaOFU domain



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