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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: sorry
Yes, the event of the season and I got turned down. Real heavy man. But if you
ever want to answer me about your Core, I'll try to get another invite. I
won't hold my breath.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
ever want to answer me about your Core, I'll try to get another invite. I
won't hold my breath.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: [thingist] What's your ominosity quotient?
I was a 7, and I thought the cupcake question was WAY COOL.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re:
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
> Oui
> Si.
It is obvious that you will answer questions.
>
> > > It's obvious. Logic is not a means to knowledge, twit.
> >
> > Oh I know that,
>
> Marvellous.
Marvellous is marvellous word, I like this word. However, you did not answer
this question...
> Oh I know that, what I want to know is if you met my daddy or called him
on the
> phone or found his biography somewhere such that you know his occupation
is
> that of a farmer? I am very interested in the precision that you speak
of...I
> mean, how do you know precisely that he is a farmer? Could he not be a
truck
> driver or a wood worker or some other southern stereotypical laborious
> occupation
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
> Oui
> Si.
It is obvious that you will answer questions.
>
> > > It's obvious. Logic is not a means to knowledge, twit.
> >
> > Oh I know that,
>
> Marvellous.
Marvellous is marvellous word, I like this word. However, you did not answer
this question...
> Oh I know that, what I want to know is if you met my daddy or called him
on the
> phone or found his biography somewhere such that you know his occupation
is
> that of a farmer? I am very interested in the precision that you speak
of...I
> mean, how do you know precisely that he is a farmer? Could he not be a
truck
> driver or a wood worker or some other southern stereotypical laborious
> occupation
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: [thingist] NN, Max Herman, Eryk Salvaggio + J. McElroy
Largely of no use. These human invented architypes all fail to be complete and
are the hubris of the people who created them.
Speaking of that, I am creating my own set of architypes and am looking for
disciples to spread the word.
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
> The antithesis of Gurdjieff's autonomous individual with awakened
> conscience was the Hasnamuss (egotist) who "never hesitates to sacrifice
> people or to create an enormous amount of suffering, just for his own
> personal ambitions." (Ouspensky, 1957b: 300). He likened them to
> unpredictable "mad machines" (Ouspensky, 1957a: 101). John Bennett defined
> the Hasnamussian individual as someone who "exploits Demiurgic powers that
> are in his nature, but does so for egotistic and self-destructive ends."
>
> articualrly apropos NN. No she ain't no Lilith.
>
> (Bennett, 1973: 291). Lentrohamsanin, "one of 313
> Hasnamussian-Eternal-Individuals,"
> was an amalgamation of Lenin, Stalin and Hitler, (Gurdjieff, 1950: 345).
> The Hasnammussian individual can be understood as a charismatic leader
> with the power to drive their group into conflict (Harff and Gurr, 1998:
> 562) for their own purposes. This is despite the probability that "war
> involvement has a negative impact on the survival rate of political
> leaders." (Mousseau and Shi, 1998: 644).
>
>
> Ie, description of self-righteous martyr-hero impulse (ego driven).
>
> During Russia's revolutionary upheavals in February 1917, Gurdjieff
> explained to Olga de Hartmann that "when you live among wolves, you have
> to howl like a wolf; but you should not be taken over by the psychosis of
> war, and inside you should try to be far removed from all this." (de
> Hartmann, 1983: 7).
>
> Observing Max.G2K insists that people be taken over by said psychosis:
> and those who aren't he harrasses.
>
> Also: screaming America sucks in the current situation would only
> knee-jerk humans to escalating military nationalism (nationalistic ego).
> Moreso than ever Americans need to turn towards conscious work,
> abr. the exmples are less than encouraging.
>
> No amount of politicking is going to justify this behavior,
> nor the attempts to abuse people being rattled by Sept 11
> for egotistiacl (memetic-ego distribution) purposes. Aka G2K.
>
> watch the ape. The Ape during war. Spastic ejaculatory behavior.
>
> Mis-identification with local cultural norms as "objective values" meant
> that discussing 'freedom', 'justice' or 'peace' was largely illusory.
>
> People used the words without self-inquiry about why this labeling
> occurred, or changing "mental models" to gain a systemic view of the
> inter-relationship between different intellectual concepts.
>
>
> Ie, lexical shifting.
>
> "Most people think that justice is about getting what we want and not what
> we deserve," Gurdjieff observed. "Justice must mean some co-ordination
> between actions and results of actions." (Ouspensky, 1957a, 205).
> Gurdjieff's dis-identification with war-time sociological propaganda meant
> that he hid Jews in war-time France while collaborating with the Germans.
> (Webb, 1980: 469). He focused on
>
> daily survival
>
> his inner-aims
>
> not loyalty to a national group
>
> or abstract ideal (changing the world, making the world a better place,
> saving the human story, etc.)
>
> Technological innovation has increased warfare, not lessened it. "All
> these theories about universal peace, about peace conferences," Gurdjieff
> reasoned, "are again simply laziness and hypocrisy." (Ouspensky, 1957a:
> 103).
>
> "Wars cannot be stopped," he told Ouspensky. "War is the result of the
> slavery in which men live." (Ouspensky, 1957a: 103).
>
> The only way to stop war is to evolve out of ego-slavery.
>
> Max.G2K wrote: what's wrong with appropriating /enslaving other people's
> belief mechanisms?
>
> Max.G2K wrote: We must stop the war.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
are the hubris of the people who created them.
Speaking of that, I am creating my own set of architypes and am looking for
disciples to spread the word.
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
> The antithesis of Gurdjieff's autonomous individual with awakened
> conscience was the Hasnamuss (egotist) who "never hesitates to sacrifice
> people or to create an enormous amount of suffering, just for his own
> personal ambitions." (Ouspensky, 1957b: 300). He likened them to
> unpredictable "mad machines" (Ouspensky, 1957a: 101). John Bennett defined
> the Hasnamussian individual as someone who "exploits Demiurgic powers that
> are in his nature, but does so for egotistic and self-destructive ends."
>
> articualrly apropos NN. No she ain't no Lilith.
>
> (Bennett, 1973: 291). Lentrohamsanin, "one of 313
> Hasnamussian-Eternal-Individuals,"
> was an amalgamation of Lenin, Stalin and Hitler, (Gurdjieff, 1950: 345).
> The Hasnammussian individual can be understood as a charismatic leader
> with the power to drive their group into conflict (Harff and Gurr, 1998:
> 562) for their own purposes. This is despite the probability that "war
> involvement has a negative impact on the survival rate of political
> leaders." (Mousseau and Shi, 1998: 644).
>
>
> Ie, description of self-righteous martyr-hero impulse (ego driven).
>
> During Russia's revolutionary upheavals in February 1917, Gurdjieff
> explained to Olga de Hartmann that "when you live among wolves, you have
> to howl like a wolf; but you should not be taken over by the psychosis of
> war, and inside you should try to be far removed from all this." (de
> Hartmann, 1983: 7).
>
> Observing Max.G2K insists that people be taken over by said psychosis:
> and those who aren't he harrasses.
>
> Also: screaming America sucks in the current situation would only
> knee-jerk humans to escalating military nationalism (nationalistic ego).
> Moreso than ever Americans need to turn towards conscious work,
> abr. the exmples are less than encouraging.
>
> No amount of politicking is going to justify this behavior,
> nor the attempts to abuse people being rattled by Sept 11
> for egotistiacl (memetic-ego distribution) purposes. Aka G2K.
>
> watch the ape. The Ape during war. Spastic ejaculatory behavior.
>
> Mis-identification with local cultural norms as "objective values" meant
> that discussing 'freedom', 'justice' or 'peace' was largely illusory.
>
> People used the words without self-inquiry about why this labeling
> occurred, or changing "mental models" to gain a systemic view of the
> inter-relationship between different intellectual concepts.
>
>
> Ie, lexical shifting.
>
> "Most people think that justice is about getting what we want and not what
> we deserve," Gurdjieff observed. "Justice must mean some co-ordination
> between actions and results of actions." (Ouspensky, 1957a, 205).
> Gurdjieff's dis-identification with war-time sociological propaganda meant
> that he hid Jews in war-time France while collaborating with the Germans.
> (Webb, 1980: 469). He focused on
>
> daily survival
>
> his inner-aims
>
> not loyalty to a national group
>
> or abstract ideal (changing the world, making the world a better place,
> saving the human story, etc.)
>
> Technological innovation has increased warfare, not lessened it. "All
> these theories about universal peace, about peace conferences," Gurdjieff
> reasoned, "are again simply laziness and hypocrisy." (Ouspensky, 1957a:
> 103).
>
> "Wars cannot be stopped," he told Ouspensky. "War is the result of the
> slavery in which men live." (Ouspensky, 1957a: 103).
>
> The only way to stop war is to evolve out of ego-slavery.
>
> Max.G2K wrote: what's wrong with appropriating /enslaving other people's
> belief mechanisms?
>
> Max.G2K wrote: We must stop the war.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]