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: aie


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

> > Suffering is how we progress our life.
>
> "I have already said before that sacrifice is necessary," said G.
> "Without sacrifice nothing can be attained. But if there is anything in
> the world that people do not understand it is the idea of sacrifice. They
> think they have to sacrifice something that they have. For example, I once
> said that they must sacrifice 'faith,' 'tranquillity,' 'health.' The
> understand this literally. But then the point is that they have not got
> either faith, or tranquillity, or health. All these words must be taken in
> quotation marks. In actual fact they have to sacrifice only what they
> imagine they have and which in reality they do not have. They must
> sacrifice their fantasies. But this is difficult for them, very difficult.
> It is much easier to sacrifice real things.

How could 'things' exist? Life is a perputual liminal state. You never "have"
anything. When an object leaves my hand, it no longer exists, nor for the
period it was in my hand, did it exist, other than as a form of fluid energy
slowed to match my perceptions (which are flawed) and tricked into matching my
expectations (which are flawed). Only in my mind can I find a perfect pen
meeting my perfect expectation, and it is my unique pen.

>
> "Another thing that people must sacrifice is their suffering. It is very
> difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any
> pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. Man is made in
> such a way that he is never so much attached to anything as he is to his
> suffering. And it is necessary to be free from suffering. No one who is
> not free from suffering, who has not sacrificed his suffering, can work.
> Later on a great deal must be said about suffering. Nothing can be
> attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by
> sacrificing suffering. Now, decipher what this means."

I used to wear a cowboy suit that was too tight and uncomfortable, but it made
me look like a real cowboy. I put up with the suit even though the itch and
pain made it hard for me to concentrate and shoot straight, and the pants were
too tight for me to get on a horse and ride. But I was the best looking cowboy
at the rodeo. Only, I was sad that I couldn't shoot and ride. For I really
wanted to be a cowboy because of the shooting and the riding. Either I had to
sacrifice my desire to be a shooting/riding cowboy or my suffering while
looking like a cowboy.

joseph

DISCUSSION

Re:


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

> 'Conscience is utterly impersonal.'

The use of double quotes, single quotes, or no quotes is personal.

Joseph

DISCUSSION

Re: aie


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

> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 joseph@electrichands.com wrote:
>
>
> I suppose one has not responsibility either.
> You're inappropriately opinionating and dissecting and analyzing
> instead of reading.

Responsibility is not a thing. Nor does one "have" responsibility.

>
> > When an object leaves my hand, it no longer exists,
>
> Er, right!

yes

>
> > nor for the period it was in my hand, did it exist, other than as a form of
> fluid energy
> > slowed to match my perceptions (which are flawed)
> > and tricked into matching my
> > expectations (which are flawed). Only in my mind can I find a perfect pen
> > meeting my perfect expectation, and it is my unique pen.
>
> Go figure, huh? But that's what false knowledge does to you.

False knowledge is knowledge of false information, it "does" nothing to you.

>
> > I used to wear a cowboy suit that was too tight and uncomfortable, but it
> made
> > me look like a real cowboy. I put up with the suit even though the itch
> and
> > pain made it hard for me to concentrate and shoot straight, and the pants
> were
> > too tight for me to get on a horse and ride. But I was the best looking
> cowboy
> > at the rodeo. Only, I was sad that I couldn't shoot and ride. For I really
> > wanted to be a cowboy because of the shooting and the riding. Either I had
> to
> > sacrifice my desire to be a shooting/riding cowboy or my suffering while
> > looking like a cowboy.
>
> Meaningless.
>

What allegories do you read that have meaning?

Joseph

DISCUSSION

Re: [thingist] All you need is luv.


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

>
> PARTHENOGENESIS - Marina Zurkow, USA
>
> Rumi asked, "What is the heart? It is not human, and it is not
> imaginary."
>
> So much for Eryk's Sufism influenced humanistic atheism.
>
> I also can't wait for Joseph to throw in a very WISE comment about that
> one too. Rumi, Gurdjieff, Abramovic, Buddha--they are only perceptions at the
> palm of his hand. Nothing exists outside of Joseph :)
>
> (except for evil hawks who feed on people's cores)

No "thing" exists, but there is existence. Perceptions are contaminated and
perfect and unique. There are other perceptions beside my own. Perception is
not knowledge and not truth.

Joseph

DISCUSSION

Re:


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

> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 joseph@electrichands.com wrote:
>
> > The use of double quotes, single quotes, or no quotes is personal.
>
> No it isn't. And it'll not become so.

Quotes are what they are perceived to be. And thus are contaminated, perfect,
and unique.

Joseph