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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.
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.
Re: Video Game as Political Propaganda
Some research on the origin of chess consider it derived from Indian race/war
games with all types of the Indian military forces on the board - chariots,
elephants, cavalry and infantry. The transformation to castles and knights
reprents a tranformation to the political structures of the western world. To
change the Indian war game into chess it was also necessary to throw away the
dice. Which not only changed the game, but one of its basic Indian philosophic
principles - the principle of Karma - and replaced it with freedom of choice.
joseph
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Quoting "Christopher Fahey [askrom]" <askROM@graphpaper.com>:
> > The Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah has realeased a video
> > game called Special Force. The game
> > appears to be explicitly designed in line with Hezbollah's
> > stated objective of the destruction of Israel. Has there
> > every been a video game released that is tied into a specific
> > political goal?
>
> Any game which simulates real-world events is inherently political. A
> typical example of this is "Sim City", where your city's success is
> dependent on certain sociopolitical assumptions that are, in the real
> world, still subject to a lot of debate.
>
> War simulations are no less political. The more representational (of
> real-world nations and events) the simulation is, the more political it
> is. The "Special Force" game seems especially political because the
> protagonist (and the game designers) are "the bad guys", but games made
> by "the good guys" are political, too. There are countless games where
> the goal is to defeat The Soviet Union, the Nazis, etc.
>
> There's a *huge* number of games where the goal is to defeat
> Hezbollah-like groups, as the "Special Force" creators are quick to
> note:
> http://www.specialforce.net/english/begin/start.htm
>
> To muddy the "good guy/bad guy" waters a little bit, there was a popular
> game a few years ago in which you played a Russian soldier and the
> enemies were Chechen terrorists. Or Chechen freedom fighters.
>
> In the art/game area, John Klima's "Serbian Skylight" and "The Great
> Game" used video game motifs to explore the politics of war.
>
> I used to be a nationally-ranked online Quake player, but when it comes
> to playing war simulation games in which I am fighting my way through a
> poor village on our own planet Earth, fighting other human beings, using
> real-world weapons (as opposed to plasma rifles), the politics of the
> simulation usually becomes too much for me.
>
> -Cf
>
> [christopher eli fahey]
> art: http://www.graphpaper.com
> sci: http://www.askrom.com
> biz: http://www.behaviordesign.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
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games with all types of the Indian military forces on the board - chariots,
elephants, cavalry and infantry. The transformation to castles and knights
reprents a tranformation to the political structures of the western world. To
change the Indian war game into chess it was also necessary to throw away the
dice. Which not only changed the game, but one of its basic Indian philosophic
principles - the principle of Karma - and replaced it with freedom of choice.
joseph
www.electrichands.com
joseph franklyn mcelroy
corporate performance artist www.corporatepa.com
go shopping -> http://www.electrichands.com/shopindex.htm
call me 646 279 2309
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Quoting "Christopher Fahey [askrom]" <askROM@graphpaper.com>:
> > The Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah has realeased a video
> > game called Special Force. The game
> > appears to be explicitly designed in line with Hezbollah's
> > stated objective of the destruction of Israel. Has there
> > every been a video game released that is tied into a specific
> > political goal?
>
> Any game which simulates real-world events is inherently political. A
> typical example of this is "Sim City", where your city's success is
> dependent on certain sociopolitical assumptions that are, in the real
> world, still subject to a lot of debate.
>
> War simulations are no less political. The more representational (of
> real-world nations and events) the simulation is, the more political it
> is. The "Special Force" game seems especially political because the
> protagonist (and the game designers) are "the bad guys", but games made
> by "the good guys" are political, too. There are countless games where
> the goal is to defeat The Soviet Union, the Nazis, etc.
>
> There's a *huge* number of games where the goal is to defeat
> Hezbollah-like groups, as the "Special Force" creators are quick to
> note:
> http://www.specialforce.net/english/begin/start.htm
>
> To muddy the "good guy/bad guy" waters a little bit, there was a popular
> game a few years ago in which you played a Russian soldier and the
> enemies were Chechen terrorists. Or Chechen freedom fighters.
>
> In the art/game area, John Klima's "Serbian Skylight" and "The Great
> Game" used video game motifs to explore the politics of war.
>
> I used to be a nationally-ranked online Quake player, but when it comes
> to playing war simulation games in which I am fighting my way through a
> poor village on our own planet Earth, fighting other human beings, using
> real-world weapons (as opposed to plasma rifles), the politics of the
> simulation usually becomes too much for me.
>
> -Cf
>
> [christopher eli fahey]
> art: http://www.graphpaper.com
> sci: http://www.askrom.com
> biz: http://www.behaviordesign.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> +
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Re: m ce lroy cult
o uch th ose m on keys
joseph & donna
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joseph franklyn mcelroy
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Quoting "marc.garrett" <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org>:
> I pasted these txt's into google to try and find more info on the piece
> 'cult'
>
> m ce lroy cult
>
>
> http://216.239.37.100/search?qEche:Q9PjDaDtwjQC:www.stanford.edu/~andrewkg
> /NWV99hdt.pdf+m+ce+l+r+o+y+cult&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
>
> see what I found...
>
> marc
>
>
>
>
> http://www.furtherfield.org
> http://www.furthernoise.org
> http://www.dido.uk.net
> We Can Make Our Own World.
>
>
>
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
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joseph & donna
www.electrichands.com
joseph franklyn mcelroy
corporate performance artist www.corporatepa.com
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Quoting "marc.garrett" <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org>:
> I pasted these txt's into google to try and find more info on the piece
> 'cult'
>
> m ce lroy cult
>
>
> http://216.239.37.100/search?qEche:Q9PjDaDtwjQC:www.stanford.edu/~andrewkg
> /NWV99hdt.pdf+m+ce+l+r+o+y+cult&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
>
> see what I found...
>
> marc
>
>
>
>
> http://www.furtherfield.org
> http://www.furthernoise.org
> http://www.dido.uk.net
> We Can Make Our Own World.
>
>
>
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
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nomad update
http://www.tricitynews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?papert&catG&idF592
joseph & donna
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joseph franklyn mcelroy
corporate performance artist www.corporatepa.com
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joseph & donna
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joseph franklyn mcelroy
corporate performance artist www.corporatepa.com
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Re: Re: [thingist] Cult CPA Performance This Saturday - The Point in The Bronx
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
> kkWe are sure that self-destruction and dragging others down
> is a righteous and good idea, Jesus.
I would not say that is a good course of action. Perhaps there are other
actions we can discuss.
joseph & donna
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joseph franklyn mcelroy
corporate performance artist www.corporatepa.com
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Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
> kkWe are sure that self-destruction and dragging others down
> is a righteous and good idea, Jesus.
>
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
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> kkWe are sure that self-destruction and dragging others down
> is a righteous and good idea, Jesus.
I would not say that is a good course of action. Perhaps there are other
actions we can discuss.
joseph & donna
www.electrichands.com
joseph franklyn mcelroy
corporate performance artist www.corporatepa.com
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Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
> kkWe are sure that self-destruction and dragging others down
> is a righteous and good idea, Jesus.
>
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
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> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
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