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, signal, noise


Quoting furtherfield <info@furtherfield.org>:

> Hi Joseph,
>
> I think that Springer is empty & you are not part of that ilk, do not
> accept
> that label - although if you are a transexual, furtherfield is willing to
> promote your gender's agenda... via its transgressive section. Of course
> others are welcome to submit if they are interested.
>
>
> http://www.furtherfield.org/transgressions.html

I didn't think Eskimos were part of that crowd, but Patrick Lichty sure lumped
them togethor. So I will stand with the Eskimos.

Or be proud to stand on any line you are standing on.

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

DISCUSSION

Now hiring part-time


Electric Hands, Inc and Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]

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Re: Portraits of Life in Net.Art


Quoting Eryk Salvaggio <eryk@maine.rr.com>:

> Well you know, I always found that I leave people out of all of my
> photographs, not
> sure why, I'm sure there is some psychological incentive [shyness
> probably being
> reason #1]. But also I'm interested in what you say about my character
> coming through
> in my art; which is ironic because that's pretty much the opposite of
> what I think art
> should be :)

When you start the definition process, your character becomes part of the art
whether you like it or not. Even the choice to use randomness reflects upon
your personality. Rather than try to deny this, I embrace it - and try not to
be ashamed to show my character, warts and all :)

>
> I mean, strictly in the sense of documentary projects. I think a certain
> truth comes out
> about things if you remove your ego [in the zen, not Freudian sense of
> the word] from
> the object of study.

But I would seperate ego from character - even to move your hand requires a
decision, and a decision demonstrates a thought, a thought is part of your
character (identity). Ego is this driving force, impetus for creation (or
power or whatever) - that has to be seperated from the artwork. I have a great
deal of ego (did anybody notice?), however, for me to even approach making a
good work, I have to forget about any stategies, imagining of glory, self
pompouse thoughts, theories, etc. When I don't do this, my work is horrible.
When I just create for joy, lose sense of myself, I create decent work. When I
am not afraid to show myself honestly, without ego, I approach good work.

I am afraid I find objectivity to be an illusion, a false belief, dishonest. I
would rather see honest subjectivity.

Same with people- I think if there are people in a
> photo, we look
> at the people; and omit everything else. For a portrait of the town, I
> guess you're right,
> people are a part of it; but the town, all by itself, has a character
> that emerges outside
> of people...it's really just a matter of subjectivity I guess.

In a way you are right, the physical characteristics of a town are like a
battery, the stored energy of the people of the past who built it. So you are
making a portrait of the community just past. Perhaps, pictures of buildings
in the process of being built would bring it to be a portrait of the "near"
current.

>
> The only thing I really wanted to get involving people that I didn't,
> was a bunch of kids
> practicing karate on a pier out here. All decked out like Ninjas.

However, as I do miss people and would be thrilled to see children practicing
karate... mixing in a taste of sweetness is not a bad thing.

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

DISCUSSION

A day in Central Park


http://www.electrichands.com/sketches/central

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

DISCUSSION

Re: Portraits of Life in Net.Art


Nice - but does anybody live there? Good abstaction and formal design elements,
but loses warmth and chaos of life. I would say this is a study in form, not a
portait.

Quoting Eryk Salvaggio <eryk@maine.rr.com>:
>
> Portraits of Life in Net.Art: American Cities, Number One: Portsmouth, NH.
> The first in a series of "Six Rule Compliant" [6RC] net.art documentaries.
>

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