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: [thingist] Joseph McElroy's, 'I love you'


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

>
> Endless masochism.

Keep running through your dictionary of mental and emotional problems, maybe
something will stick. Pretty soon you will run out, then what will you do? You
don't use your imagination, so you cannot invent anything. You are slowly
running down - I sense, my friend, that I am not the one dying.

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Re: [thingist] Re: RHIZOME_RAW: beuys


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

> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, joseph (yes) wrote:
>
> > There is no defensiveness my friend,
>
> Oh yes there is, and your very denial is simply the flip-side
> of the same coin. The entirety of your subsequent commentary
> are self-importance egotistical passive-aggressive defensiveness,
> with your attempts to con-vince that you really really are
> enlightened.

As you wish my dear friend.

> > I enjoy the conversation
>
> No, you don't. In fact, you don't enjoy anything.
> Masochistic self-debasory masturbation is not 'enjoyment'.

I enjoy using a chisel to carve off the paint on an old door. I enjoy closing
my eyes and seeing through my eyelids.

>
> > and toss in sticks to stoke the fire,
>
> No, dearest, this is not what you are doing, no matter how much you
> try to label it with your words as such. What you are doing is
> speaking about your state, as that is the only thing you're capable of.

no matter how you label, with your words, what I am doing, you do not
understand what I am doing. Relax my friend, I am not here to win or lose.

>
> I don't 'wish to view you' as defensive, dearest. Avoid attempting
> to project your_ wishful_ delusions as representations of what
> is going on. I am entirely wish-free and desire'free, and reflect you
> as you are, not as you like to tell yourself that you are.

I am not attempting to project, I very carefully used the word "if" - thus
allowing you the choice. You have been doing this too long, your mirror is
getting foggy. Relax my friend.

> in verbal noise, reality is what is, and not subject to whatever
> labels you wish to attempt to slap onto it.

Words are perceptions, and frail ones. They don't change reality, but influence
how we perceive it. Removing the influence of words can be a good thing.

> >
> > Are responsibilities attachements?
>
> No.

Then I am free.

>
> No, it doesn't. Freedom is simply not automatic, nor a matter of
> 'discernment'--a word which you don't understand.
> Freedom is something you pay for, however, you've let the bird
> out of the cage.

Freedom is there at all times, but yes, there is a price.

>
> You are not building, nor are you free, dear.
> You, personally, are in fact not even of the capacity to be free.
> You, personally, are self-destructing and lashing about in public
> without a care of who what and how you affect.

I am not a person.

>
> No dearest. Don't try to dress yourself up in clothes that don't belong.
> You present out of self-important egotism. And you're peddling.

I peddle when it is appropriate. I present when it is appropriate. I sit when I
sit. I eat when I eat.

>
> You're simply on your way out Joseph. On your way out.

I have already left, now there is just me. And you, and we.

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Re: [thingist] Re: RHIZOME_RAW: beuys


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

>
> More meaningless hallucinations.
> What I wrote dearest is: you're dead.
> Without a chance for freedom.
> And it was your_ choice.
> Now avoid attempting to peddle yourself as someone
> who is actually capable of things you are not,
> and avoid attempting to use 'belief' 'imagery'
> 'shamanism' and 'spirituality' to leech energy from others.
>
> THAT is what is your reality.
> The one behind that singasong that you tell yourself.
> That of a delusional, empty shell thrashing about.
>
>
> The mesmeric self-hypnotic maschines of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Oh my old friend, your attempts to murder me will not work, though I understand
why you wish to do so. I love you still. Does this bother you? That I can love
the man who murders me?

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Re: [thingist] Re: RHIZOME_RAW: beuys


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

My old friend, whether you choose to return the salutation or not.

> There are no attempts to murder you, dearest.
> You're already_ dead--and lashing out at others.

Others? I speak to you. Do you speak for others?

>
> You understand nothing dearest: you lack
> the capacity to understand. Nor are therea ny wishes in my behavior.

Wishes are unfulfilled dreams, you are weak with them.

>
> Sorry dearest. You are_ what you are, not what you wish to peddle
> yourself as.

I sit when I sit. I eat when I eat.

>
> No, you don't. Your melodramatic posturing is much akin to
> an old woman's: please buy me, I still have life in me, I'm pretty.

You call to me my dear friend, looking for me like a dog to his bone.

>
> > Does this bother you?
> Cheap emotional attempt at knee-jerk.

I see that it does. Relax my friend.

>
> > That I can love the man who murders me?
> You are not capable of love, dearest.
> You're attempting to present your melodramatic masochism
> driven by your ego as 'love'.

Forgive me if you love me. Or, love me if you forgive me. To forgive is to
release thoughts of another in opposition to you, for in fact another cannot be
in opposition to you. You are in opposition to yourself. Forgive yourself and
then you love.

> Nor is anyone murdering you; rather the opposite
> that is what you do to others, and passive-aggressively
> attempting to do in this situation.

I am responding to you courting me.

> The more ypu speak, the more you reveal yourself, dearest.

As it should be, to those who can see.

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Re: [thingist] Terrorism Is Society's Condemnation of Itself


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

> What a pity that he doesn't go one step further and clarify the
> 'virulent' form of violence as being flattening out and memetic
> 'reproduction' of the ego, which is thoroughly_ exemmplified by
> the likes of NN, Max G2K (who attempts to represent his ego-spawning
> as 'seeds of new religions'), Marc Garrett's (I inflict myself on
> others and that is how I communicate) and Joseph McElroy's psychotic
> 'there is no fighting' 'fighting ist bad', I am you really I am you
> idiocy.
>

'Their defiance can only be addressed by vengefully humiliating the "others"
(but surely not by crushing them with bombs or by locking them up like
dogs...'

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