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

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BIO
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: Cupcakes and contrition.


>
> Hey this reminds me, I mowed the lawn yesterday. All them dandelions just
> got flat whooped by my hype-ass power machine. Sparks were flyin out from
> the air filter and the blade area when I hit a rock or two. Now the whole
> community is out there chillin, lookin fine, sexy like the get go.
>

I remember fondly the days of mowing grass, using a weed wacker to get the last
little blades, the edger to make the lines straight. I lived in the country
once.

--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]

DISCUSSION

Re: Men without Gods, Gods without Men


Quoting Nmherman@aol.com:

> The girl just walked back the other direction! Landlady's black lab is at
> the window, likes to hop up and say Hi to my dog Freda.
>
> What we need instead is to be on our own.
>

When Donna and I first moved to New York, we had an apartment at street level
on 36th and Lex. We had these huge bay windows we could open. One day, I
swear that Sharon Stone walked by our windows. I yelled for Donna to come see,
made a big comotion. She came, but missed Sharon Stone. She pretty much
thought I was a big fool. It might have been less trouble to keep it to myself.

--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]

DISCUSSION

Re: Cupcakes, signal, noise


Quoting Patrick Lichty

> What's going on is the crank du jour vis-a-vis rhizome raw. For years, we
> have our various 'fringes' that intentionally inject noise into the system
> for purposes of intellectual colonization (NN, Max, Josh, Joseph) and
> control of the conversation. Pretty simple tactic, and very effective.
>

Sorry, the agenda is not control of the conversation. It is an identity
distribution network, outside of traditional channels. It requires an
intuitive understanding of the network, working the flow to create
introductions and relationships, both online and offline. Some people work it
by generating algorythms, others use search and include methods, others use a
strategy of engage, converse, confuse, and present. Because such strategies
requires a constant flow of information, by necessity, creative writing, stream
of consciousness, poems, jokes, become part of the mix. In is similar to a
branding strategy, yet different in that a consistent message is not part of
the plan.

Your career strategy is effective in that you will build a respected reputation
(as is evident by other career oriented people's responses to you), however it
will be a relatively small community. I, on the other hand, exist for the home
run, and accept the great risk that I will die a complete failure (as defined
by society ... money, power, and fame). However, I also have complete freedom
to pursue any experience that I wish, from being CEO, construction worker,
living in a tent, public sex, flying to Japan for dinner with the guy who
brought Reagan to Japan.

You might try to declare that you have this freedom as an 'Artist', but you
don't. You have pursued a career, this means you have to fit within the
confines of acceptable behavior - you sacrifice freedom for security. You and
your compadres build little fortresses of intellectual thought, thinking you
are finding meaning, when it is just protection for your reputation, your
career.

I think your fortresses are silly, easily broken down, and soon to be
dismantled by the next fortress builder down the line. On the other hand,
every once in a while, VERY infrequently, one of you people who give up freedom
find a nugget of limited value, that does create something useful. So I am
glad there is a bunch of you doing the hard boring work, keeping the little
gears running. So I don't have to do it.

--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]

DISCUSSION

Re: Elves love cupcakes!


Quoting Ivan Pope <ivan@ivanpope.com>:

> Personally, I can't wait till Rachel gets in gear and Rare returns and we
> can all have some decent moderated discussion. Any ideas how long that
> might
> be?
> I mean, creativity yes, but I've been around lists too long to suffer this
> stuff.
> Cheers,
> Ivan

You really are a scared little man aren't you? Are any of your posts about
anything besides censoring what someone else said?

I get it! That is your art! You take other peoples work and make it really bad
by taking the creative part out!

--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]

DISCUSSION

Re: FLUXLIST: Re: An Art Service - Getting Dressed


Quoting cactu@cantv.net:

> young with old truths about to happen. new forms without borders.
> bypasing old audiences, national highways, oceans of information, acid
> clouds parked on the museums, freezzen bullets ten hands of my brain, inner
> censorships stoping myself for years ,

I hit my hands against brick walls to make the knuckles hard for karate. I
practice karate to get in shape. I get in shape to have less pain in my body.
Hitting the brick walls causes my body to have pain. The self-inflicted pain
of discipline is much better than the self-inflicted pain of neglect.

> do you believe we are free to use any form in a new any way?
>

Form is a frozen moment, talking to yourself from the future to the past.
Someone else sees only the outer skin of the conversation. Though sometimes it
resembles their skin and they feel good about it. Since it is a conversation,
it can change anyway it needs to be spoken.

> merge the individual with the whole society.
>
> don't let copyrights, aestheticians & art collectors kill your soul.

individual gives control to the whole society, releases and accepts
responsibility, loses ego, retains character.

--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]