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: Nomad Update


Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:

> On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Joseph Franklyn McElroy Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance]
> Art[ist] wrote:
>
> > I am not peddling anything as art.
>
> No, and neither is max, nor Eryk, nor pick-MOST-any-'artist' out there.

You are not correct, I am perhaps peddling myself as an artist and peddling my
art services or experiences, but not anyTHING as art.

> Uh. no.
> Art is not digging ditches.

I rather dig ditches than weave baskets.

>
> > We provide a service of posting
> > notes and pictures, to be followed by stories and net.art
> > rituals/poems/etc.
>
> Nonsense. Teenage diaries are not 'art'.
> Go to blogger. 'Sharing experiences' is not art either.

Never said it was. But I am telling a many layered story, that takes a long
time to build. I am not looking for precision - that is your bag. I look for
the results of many layers of transparencies - which you will not understand
for now.

BTW - You are not putting any art up here either, shouldn't your posts be in
some philosophic journals somewhere?

>
> > Part is documentary, part is an art service.
>
> No, it isn't.

Sure it is. These are just two opinions facing off, with no "moral right" or
"moral wrong" to judge between them.

>
> > The line is blurred.
>
> Between hanging the picture of your car, your house,
> and your dog on the internet and art? No, thank you.

How about swords? You are not going to understand all my language in one fell
swoop. Perhaps you will never bother. I hope you do, but am not hurt if you
don't.

>
> > Self publishing is a good power to have, don't you think?

> It's not power. Self-publishing becomes useful only in the hands
> of those who DO have power. The rest is drivel.

Do you mean those with existing political/economic power or those with the
power to express themselves efficiently?

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

DISCUSSION

Re: Copyright: not for you.


I will query someone who knows these laws better than myself.

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

DISCUSSION

Re: For Kj (my core)


Aw, you didn't tell me your core. Well, your techniques have a crude
effectiveness - label people as idiots until they give intellectual ground to
your opinions, respond more positively until they are yours.

See ya bucko, you are a trap for the curious and needy.

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

DISCUSSION

Re: For Kj (evolution, revolution)


Quoting Wally Keeler <poetburo@sympatico.ca>:

> In this case, could it be that you are referring to evolution rather than
> revolution. Sometimes the social/cultural difference between Canada and the
> USA has been explained away because the USA was born from revolution whereas
> Canada was born from evolution. Or perhaps you are involved in revolution by
> stealth, which may also be evolution, but evolution by direction, yours of
> course.

Actually, I never said I was involved in either - just that I would prefer it.
Look back a bit for a Liza Sabatur post about integration and the Cosby show.
How a "revolution" in the perception of african-american family life was
accomplished not by startling force, but by a gradual acceptance of the change
as normal.

Evolution is perhaps a better term.

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

DISCUSSION

a con man


I am a con man, I will use the energy you give me to build and create. I will
suck you dry, but you will be refilled by time and satisfaction from the
creation. You perhaps learn to be a con man yourself, or perhaps never. It
does not matter, for you still participate and experience in life. You build.

A good con man must first con himself, become a true believer. A good con man
is not ironic.

If we are not fooled out of irony, nothing much would be created.

A good con man never explains the "truth" or "reality".

A good con man never calls his mark an idiot.

A good con man laughs at death.

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