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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.
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: For Kj (my core)
Kandinskij, I am growing quite fond of you - always so irritable.
I look inside myself and I find fear. Like a schoolboy facing his first day of
school, I wake each day wondering what I should do next. I don't pretend to
find a "truth" or "formula for success" that takes the fear away. I don't
pretend to have advanced knowledge or abilities to protect me from my fears. I
don't convince others of my wisdom such that by large numbers of followers I
justify to myself that I have found a truth.
So what to do with my fear? I have a cute little saying I made up "Fear's feast
I was, Fear's famine I shall be" which I take to mean that the fertile ground
of my imagination, which used to be consumed by thoughts of protection from the
things I fear, will be used for thoughts of living and creative practices. I
let my fears take me, let the things I fear to happen, happen and try to
survive them. I find that while my fears are always replaced with new ones, my
reaction to fear becomes almost a loving relationship.
And the big fear - Death? I find that in times of quiet, or reflection, I
start remembering the many events of my life with pleasure and I have come to
expect that as Death nears me, I will have an intense period of reflection, a
profound moment of pleasure. To increase this profound moment, I try to live
as much as possible, to experience many events and meet many people. Since I
am not searching for "truth," I have no real concern with what comes after
Death. Not that I do not fear an abrupt ending to my existence, just that I
will let whatever happens after Death happen.
As for fears and concerns for the world, I am very wary of any abrupt changes
in power structures and instant gratification techniques such as revolution and
ideological insurgencies... I view them as one group of power mad people trying
to replace another group of power mad people. Nor does complete destruction of
the world and starting over appeal to me, since a rather barbaric class would
be the first kings. No, I believe that properly motivated people should
attempt to gain power within existing structures and then modify those
structures. No whining about change, just attempting and succeeding at doing
it.
I am not a moral man. I don't do things because a higher power has commanded
that these are "right" or "wrong." I try to do things that make practical
sense within a society of individuals. Murder is wrong, not because a god says
so, but because if murder is condoned or unpunished, it is very likely that I
will face an untimely end. The same for keeping my word, if this were a
marriage, long term friendship, or business deal, I would probably keep my word
since I would like the same in return (though I know this will not always be
the case). I view "moral" behavior has an attempt to bring stability to an
otherwise chaotic existence.
Finally, you said you choose to accept an unchanging reality with our
perceptions of it easily manipulated. I find this to be an extremely
pessimistic viewpoint - easily conducive to creating a cadre of "enlightened"
individuals leading the "unenlightened" through the morass of false
perceptions. I choose to accept a malleable reality, where no one knows the
truth, and where the best we can do is accept the new reality as it is
presented to us each day and enjoy the best of it as we can.
Now lets hear your grumbles...
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
I look inside myself and I find fear. Like a schoolboy facing his first day of
school, I wake each day wondering what I should do next. I don't pretend to
find a "truth" or "formula for success" that takes the fear away. I don't
pretend to have advanced knowledge or abilities to protect me from my fears. I
don't convince others of my wisdom such that by large numbers of followers I
justify to myself that I have found a truth.
So what to do with my fear? I have a cute little saying I made up "Fear's feast
I was, Fear's famine I shall be" which I take to mean that the fertile ground
of my imagination, which used to be consumed by thoughts of protection from the
things I fear, will be used for thoughts of living and creative practices. I
let my fears take me, let the things I fear to happen, happen and try to
survive them. I find that while my fears are always replaced with new ones, my
reaction to fear becomes almost a loving relationship.
And the big fear - Death? I find that in times of quiet, or reflection, I
start remembering the many events of my life with pleasure and I have come to
expect that as Death nears me, I will have an intense period of reflection, a
profound moment of pleasure. To increase this profound moment, I try to live
as much as possible, to experience many events and meet many people. Since I
am not searching for "truth," I have no real concern with what comes after
Death. Not that I do not fear an abrupt ending to my existence, just that I
will let whatever happens after Death happen.
As for fears and concerns for the world, I am very wary of any abrupt changes
in power structures and instant gratification techniques such as revolution and
ideological insurgencies... I view them as one group of power mad people trying
to replace another group of power mad people. Nor does complete destruction of
the world and starting over appeal to me, since a rather barbaric class would
be the first kings. No, I believe that properly motivated people should
attempt to gain power within existing structures and then modify those
structures. No whining about change, just attempting and succeeding at doing
it.
I am not a moral man. I don't do things because a higher power has commanded
that these are "right" or "wrong." I try to do things that make practical
sense within a society of individuals. Murder is wrong, not because a god says
so, but because if murder is condoned or unpunished, it is very likely that I
will face an untimely end. The same for keeping my word, if this were a
marriage, long term friendship, or business deal, I would probably keep my word
since I would like the same in return (though I know this will not always be
the case). I view "moral" behavior has an attempt to bring stability to an
otherwise chaotic existence.
Finally, you said you choose to accept an unchanging reality with our
perceptions of it easily manipulated. I find this to be an extremely
pessimistic viewpoint - easily conducive to creating a cadre of "enlightened"
individuals leading the "unenlightened" through the morass of false
perceptions. I choose to accept a malleable reality, where no one knows the
truth, and where the best we can do is accept the new reality as it is
presented to us each day and enjoy the best of it as we can.
Now lets hear your grumbles...
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: Nomad Update
I am not peddling anything as art. Art is a service, experience is a benefit,
objects are service delivery mechanisms. We provide a service of posting
notes and pictures, to be followed by stories and net.art
rituals/poems/etc. Part is documentary, part is an art service. The line
is blurred. We also produce objects to exchange for more experiences such as
these, thus leading to more notes, pictures, stories, and net.art
rituals/poems/etc.
Self publishing is a good power to have, don't you think?
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
objects are service delivery mechanisms. We provide a service of posting
notes and pictures, to be followed by stories and net.art
rituals/poems/etc. Part is documentary, part is an art service. The line
is blurred. We also produce objects to exchange for more experiences such as
these, thus leading to more notes, pictures, stories, and net.art
rituals/poems/etc.
Self publishing is a good power to have, don't you think?
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: New Net.Art: "RGB (Dancing Pixels)"
There are other levels of interactivity - shift-click will highlight areas in
white or scroll image of the screen - changing size of screen dramatically
alters images. I kept wishing for the images to interact more directly - dark
areas intersecting at the edges - forming a pattern accross the whole.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
white or scroll image of the screen - changing size of screen dramatically
alters images. I kept wishing for the images to interact more directly - dark
areas intersecting at the edges - forming a pattern accross the whole.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: meanness
Then of course, some of us just want to be "mean" or like my mamma used to
say "you was juz born mean"
:)
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
say "you was juz born mean"
:)
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: For Kj (zen master)
You sexually inept, moronic dictator...I did a search for penis, monkey, and
dictator and found Kj's soul brother...
www.jiggscasey.com
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
dictator and found Kj's soul brother...
www.jiggscasey.com
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]