joseph mcelroy
Since 2002
Works in New York United States of America

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The McElroys are a husband and wife collaborative artist, technology, and business team who bring significant artistic, technology and community development skills to Corporate Performance Artists. Joseph, is a graduate of Computer Science from Duke University and a former team leader at IBM. He has been a CEO of several companies, and has been responsible for raising $2 million to fund a startup company called EveryDayPrint.com, which while part of the dot-com boom and bust, he managed to bring to profitability and which still survives to this day.

Donna was an operations manager and PR specialist in the firms they have started together. She has recently been credited by several business leaders in the Bronx as being "top spokesperson for the Bronx." She is active in many community development projects, such as participating on the Board of the Bruckner Arts and Antique District, and working to promote many Bronx activities through an online newsletter called Cupcake Kaleidoscope.

Joseph was the leader of the Open Source Sig for the New York Software Industry Association. And was track co-chair for Open Source at the 2001 New York Software Industry Summit. He was on the advisory board for PostgreSql, Inc - the leading Open Source Database and has had articles published by Lutris Technologies and Open Magazine on Open Source business models and technology solutions. He is a database expert with extensive Fortune 500 experience. Among other awards, he won an IBM Division Award for Technical Excellence.

From magazine "Open" issue September 2001 - "The McElroys kick open the doors of old business models and capitalize on what they believe." The McElroys have achieved re-known as Open Source visionaries with interviews by Interactive Week, Infoworld, Fortune Technology, Open magazine, and others. Joseph and Donna make no claims of divine insight, but in review by Lewis Lacock, it is said, "that this dynamic duo of art are the closest things we have to true shamans today". They are doing their best to pursue the knowledge to support such claims someday.

HIGHLIGHTS

* Achieved reputation as Open Source visionarys with interviews by Interactive Week, Infoworld, Fortune Technology, Open magazine among others.
* National Columnist on Money Matters for Gather.com.
* Judge for the Advanced Technical Categories of the Emmys.
* Successfully raised $2 million funding for startup.
* Successfully built and sold two technology businesses.
* First Entry into the Multimedia wing of the Museum of Computer Art.
* Artwork collected by the Library at Cornell University.
* Artwork in the collection of Rhizome.org.
* Developed first ever Exhibition Catalog completely on CD Rom. Done for Alternative Museum. Reviewed by New York Times.
* Selected to attend first ever Summer Institute for Performance Art at The Kitchen in NYC.
* IBM Division Award for Technical Excellence.
* Various academic, mathematic and scholarship awards. Attended Duke University on a full scholarship in mathematics.
* Poetry published in various journals. Art exhibited in museum shows.
* Certificate of Artistic Excellence from Congressman Jose Serrano.
* Recognized by Bronx Borough President Aldofo Carrion for contributions to the community.
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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: [syndicate] [CupcakeKleidoscope] CUPCAKE KALEIDOSCOPE # 18 4/15/03


http://www.electrichands.com/sketches/webster/

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Quoting Eryk Salvaggio <eryk@maine.rr.com>:

>
> You don't have my permission to use my text to promote your "art." While I
> can't do anything to stop you, it is theft and you are choosing to play the
> role of a dishonest, manipulative thief. You also pretend not to understand
> that the problem with your velvet elvis didn't come from some "troubling
> power" that it had over its "audience", but rather that it was a failure as
> a result of its own mediocrity and cheap exploitation. The attention I give
> you is not a result of your "power" by any means but the result of your
> delusion of power. But keep telling yourself that you are making
> "challenging, controversial work." And keep cranking out cheap egroups
> promotional propaganda to serve that end, and to convince others about your
> superficial "search for enlightenment." For the delusions you'd have to walk
> through I am not surprised by your resistance to the real thing.
>
> -e.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "cupcakekaleidoscope" <chris@electrichands.com>
> To: <CupcakeKleidoscope@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 12:39 PM
> Subject: [syndicate] [CupcakeKleidoscope] CUPCAKE KALEIDOSCOPE # 18 4/15/03
>
>
> > oo,?

DISCUSSION

Re: further question on the "rublinda" correspondance


Couldn't really get it, seems to be broken up.

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Quoting Michael Szpakowski <szpako@yahoo.com>:

> I'm interested to know what people make then, of this
> piece by Ivan Pope.
> I'll lay my cards on the table -I think it's good, but
> it seems to me a lot of the "linda/flowers" discussion
> applies here. Does it? Is it different? How? What do
> folk think?
> http://www.ivanpope.com/fragile/index.html
> best
> michael
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DISCUSSION

Re: Dia article in NYTimes Mag


> The Dia attempted to remove all obstacles btw the artist and his
> vision. The artists were free to ascend the ivory tower and live in
> intellectual, abstract realms. Would this sort of ivory tower be
> beneficial for net/web/new media artists?

For the production of tools and formal elements - yes, it would be extremely
beneficial to have an R&D facility.
For the production of content - neither beneficial or detrimental - unless
ivory tower is the only life lived, in which case detrimental.

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Quoting "t.whid" <twhid@mteww.com>:

> hi all,
>
> Sorry I keep harping on this but I don't think what I was originally
> questioning was addressed.
>
> Lets put aside all the collaborative, open source, community oriented,
> and yet-to-be-invented models of cultural production and remember what
> the Dia did for these lucky artists in the early 70s. They gave them
> the time and means to pursue their grandest visions without
> encumbrance. They didn't have to worry about raising money from
> investors, writing grant proposals, organizing teams to build parts of
> their work; they simply had to worry about their vision.
>
> The Dia attempted to remove all obstacles btw the artist and his
> vision. The artists were free to ascend the ivory tower and live in
> intellectual, abstract realms. Would this sort of ivory tower be
> beneficial for net/web/new media artists? Should net/web/new media
> artists have the daily drudgery swept away? Does the daily hubbub
> inform our art in a essential way? Do artists need to mix with the hoi
> polloi?
> --
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DISCUSSION

Re: Technology in Art (was Dia article in NYTimes Mag)


> that's the difference btw us, yer talking about Art in Technology and
> i'm talking about Technology in Art.
>
> I think there is a very big difference.

Yes, there is. But compartmentalizing your financial activities from your art
activities is not a bad thing to do. You can do both and they can even
facilitate the other. Same for other activities, art is not politics, but
artists use art to promote political activities.

Being an artist does not seperate you from the material necessities of your
life, and the pursuit of material comfort is not inconsistent with being an
artist.

But I guess there are definitely two conversations here - one how to raise
resources to enable the building of industry competetive new media peices and
one on how to utilize such resources in the prodution of art. IE - the
producer's problem and the director's problem.

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Quoting "t.whid" <twhid@mteww.com>:

> At 20:39 +0000 4/8/03, joseph (yes=no & yes<>no) wrote:
> >> one big reason is economics.
> >>
> >
> >There is a huge cultural base used to consuming writing and paintings as
> >creative content. Not so with Art in Technology (note my use of branding
> :),
> >it will take a dedicated effort to create that cultural base. Though
> >the online
> >games market is helping quite a bit.
> >
> >>
>
>
> that's the difference btw us, yer talking about Art in Technology and
> i'm talking about Technology in Art.
>
> I think there is a very big difference.
> --
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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: Dia article in NYTimes Mag


> In many ways, I feel as if the New Media art scene reflects elements of
> global capitalism; as if the ephemeral artists are unpaid workers of a
> cultural Free Economic Zone. Of course, the kinds of conditions that
> workers in sweatshops have to endure are not really comparable, but can it
> be said that in many cases, independent New Media artists are similar to
> the Maquiladoras of the art world?

We have to repurpose our content outside of the art world. We already live life
as spouse, teacher, artist, etc. Add small businessperson to our title.
Unfortunately, the traditional sales channels for artists are not working for
new media artists (unless you produce traditional objects). No one will invent
one either, until we do.

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joseph franklyn mcelroy
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Quoting Patrick Lichty <voyd@voyd.com>:

> At 03:45 PM 4/8/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >one big reason is economics.
> >
> >the film industry is a multi-billion dollar one. the new media art world?
> >ha, not even multi-million.
>
> Hah. Not even multi-thousand, most times.
>
> In many ways, I feel as if the New Media art scene reflects elements of
> global capitalism; as if the ephemeral artists are unpaid workers of a
> cultural Free Economic Zone. Of course, the kinds of conditions that
> workers in sweatshops have to endure are not really comparable, but can it
> be said that in many cases, independent New Media artists are similar to
> the Maquiladoras of the art world?
>
> I think that there are distinct possibilities here.
>
> The gift economy should be _optional_.
>
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