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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: Cupcakes, signal, noise
It is an identity distribution strategy. If it were a branding strategy, you
would know what or whom to buy, and I would have something or some idea I was
consistently trying to sell. Those who use this forum as a lecture hall are
selling their ideas to see how they fly. For the most part they sell badly and
don't have a coherent brand strategy. And I don't see where a lecture hall and
theatre are really any different.
>if he has to do it in opposition to everyone else.
This is funny, since when did Ivan Pope become everyone else?
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Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
would know what or whom to buy, and I would have something or some idea I was
consistently trying to sell. Those who use this forum as a lecture hall are
selling their ideas to see how they fly. For the most part they sell badly and
don't have a coherent brand strategy. And I don't see where a lecture hall and
theatre are really any different.
>if he has to do it in opposition to everyone else.
This is funny, since when did Ivan Pope become everyone else?
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Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: Cupcakes, signal, noise
Quoting Patrick Lichty <voyd@voyd.com>:
> My apologies for sounding anything in the negative, but I feel that this
> has gotten a little personal.
from previous emails, Quoting Patrick Lichty <voyd@voyd.com>:
> "And lastly, in regards to his request to know what Nino has "exactly ...
> done or accomplished", I'd ask that he consider what his reaction would be
> if that question were aimed at himself. "
> "McElroy is our resident Transsexual Nazi Eskimo who's
> cheating on her husband with a 57 Plymouth, "
Don't cry on my shoulder, you started the attacking, you are a hypocrit who is
dancing between bemoaning a lack of control of the non-academic masses and
appeasing the alternative powers-that-be that read the list.
>In my own way, I'm
>ever out on the edge, facing imminent disaster every year. Money (where?)
>power (huh?) fame (maybe a little, but nowhere close to justify stardom) are
Oh pleasseeee, stop with the sympathy shit. Everybody has money problems,
including the millionaire next door. I tell you what, if you really are about
to lose your house, I will help you to not lose it. Now, everybody reading
this...do I get sympathy points? Please, I really want sympathy points! It will
help my career.
> But it's really ironic when people throw stones at the hologram.
> That's not condescending, that's merely the observation of an artist
> watching how people react to his facets.
So putting out stimuli and observing reactions is part of your artistic
forte...much like writing a little paragraph about cupcakes and watching it
snowball in this discussion...do you really think that academic approach to
research and discovery is the only and best way? You throw more stones than I
can carry.
And since your standard practice seems to be to claim some sort of prescience,
I hereby proclaim that all statements made by any party that in anyway imply
the phrase "I knew that would happen" are hereby null and void.
If, indeed, you have such foresight, please have it dated and notarized and
sent by mail to a registered party for examination at the time you wish to make
your prescient statements.
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Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
> My apologies for sounding anything in the negative, but I feel that this
> has gotten a little personal.
from previous emails, Quoting Patrick Lichty <voyd@voyd.com>:
> "And lastly, in regards to his request to know what Nino has "exactly ...
> done or accomplished", I'd ask that he consider what his reaction would be
> if that question were aimed at himself. "
> "McElroy is our resident Transsexual Nazi Eskimo who's
> cheating on her husband with a 57 Plymouth, "
Don't cry on my shoulder, you started the attacking, you are a hypocrit who is
dancing between bemoaning a lack of control of the non-academic masses and
appeasing the alternative powers-that-be that read the list.
>In my own way, I'm
>ever out on the edge, facing imminent disaster every year. Money (where?)
>power (huh?) fame (maybe a little, but nowhere close to justify stardom) are
Oh pleasseeee, stop with the sympathy shit. Everybody has money problems,
including the millionaire next door. I tell you what, if you really are about
to lose your house, I will help you to not lose it. Now, everybody reading
this...do I get sympathy points? Please, I really want sympathy points! It will
help my career.
> But it's really ironic when people throw stones at the hologram.
> That's not condescending, that's merely the observation of an artist
> watching how people react to his facets.
So putting out stimuli and observing reactions is part of your artistic
forte...much like writing a little paragraph about cupcakes and watching it
snowball in this discussion...do you really think that academic approach to
research and discovery is the only and best way? You throw more stones than I
can carry.
And since your standard practice seems to be to claim some sort of prescience,
I hereby proclaim that all statements made by any party that in anyway imply
the phrase "I knew that would happen" are hereby null and void.
If, indeed, you have such foresight, please have it dated and notarized and
sent by mail to a registered party for examination at the time you wish to make
your prescient statements.
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Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: Cupcakes and contrition.
Quoting Patrick Lichty <voyd@voyd.com>:
> isn't my end, and I may wrongly feel that McElroy got personal long before I
> did, I'm just dropping the subject as it isn't productive to anything. I've
> told him this.
Prove it. I pulled quickly from my archives the personal statements you
attacked me with. My response comes from the martial arts, to respond with
brutal force. Essentially you got angry and lashed out with a limpid hand
because I had the audacity to question your friend Nino, these hard feelings
spilled over into this conversation that started with Ivan attacking our little
cupcake scenerio. Both of you were trying to cover harsh feelings with pretty
words and intellectual conceit. Your contrition has been a play for sympathy
from the audience for which you are performing. It had nothing to do with me.
You are dishonest. Now run for cover little birds.
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Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
> isn't my end, and I may wrongly feel that McElroy got personal long before I
> did, I'm just dropping the subject as it isn't productive to anything. I've
> told him this.
Prove it. I pulled quickly from my archives the personal statements you
attacked me with. My response comes from the martial arts, to respond with
brutal force. Essentially you got angry and lashed out with a limpid hand
because I had the audacity to question your friend Nino, these hard feelings
spilled over into this conversation that started with Ivan attacking our little
cupcake scenerio. Both of you were trying to cover harsh feelings with pretty
words and intellectual conceit. Your contrition has been a play for sympathy
from the audience for which you are performing. It had nothing to do with me.
You are dishonest. Now run for cover little birds.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: Cupcakes, signal, noise
Quoting "t.whid" <twhid@mteww.com>:
>
>
> imo you put yourself in opposition to almost everyone else. i agree
> with ivan pope, you never generously agree with anyone. you use your
> knowledge as a blunt object.
If I respond to you, are you going to call my work "worse than amature" and run
away again? To the point, I have agreed with Jess, Max, Mark, Karanika, among
others. I even publicly apologized to Jess Loseby when she demonstated how
incorrect I was. Recently, I even agreed in part with Eryk on his Portrait. I
don't have a problem with conversations and idea exchange, however I have a
problem with you repressed cowboys who try to pass off your male agression and
ego and personal opinion as terms of intellectual banter. And then run off and
hide when confronted with the brutal honesty of what you are doing and not
doing.
>
> [how can i frame my next comment in a constructive way? can't really,
> please understand it's expressed with only the best of intentions]
>
You can't, because you are just pissed off and want to make me look bad,
without looking bad to the people reading this list. You are no more noble than
the next motherfucker, so stop playing the saint.
> your performance on this list doesn't need an explanation (and i for
> one was a bit insulted by it), i think i can safely speak for the
> majority when i say we're mostly bored of this sort of thing; having
> watched different personalities come and go over the years, it's a
> bit 1998. the only one that turned out to be interesting is NN, and
> that's coz NN is so damn rigorous and unstoppable. (meiko and ryu are
> my all time favorites though.)
Aren't you witty? I bet you wrote that with semi-closed lids and a languid
cigarette hanging from your lips. What do you think would be constructive
about a personal opinion that is derisive. Here is a personal opinion of mine,
why don't you work out more? Your body seems more 1950's middle age than
current. (Yea, I know, I look fat too - but I work out) As for NN, etc - I have
no desire to be a perpetual online personality constantly plaguing the lists, I
come and go for various learning, experimentation, and distribution purposes.
Check me out in the Usenet archives, circa 1995. Or the Source, circa 1985 (I
had the cute name Eternal Champion). Or Compuserve, circa 1992. Maybe even
Usenet circa 1981.
Now throw your pebbles and run.
BTW - is it now my turn to feel like you don't respect me? I feel so bad. And I
thought you liked me! Sob.
> --
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Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
>
>
> imo you put yourself in opposition to almost everyone else. i agree
> with ivan pope, you never generously agree with anyone. you use your
> knowledge as a blunt object.
If I respond to you, are you going to call my work "worse than amature" and run
away again? To the point, I have agreed with Jess, Max, Mark, Karanika, among
others. I even publicly apologized to Jess Loseby when she demonstated how
incorrect I was. Recently, I even agreed in part with Eryk on his Portrait. I
don't have a problem with conversations and idea exchange, however I have a
problem with you repressed cowboys who try to pass off your male agression and
ego and personal opinion as terms of intellectual banter. And then run off and
hide when confronted with the brutal honesty of what you are doing and not
doing.
>
> [how can i frame my next comment in a constructive way? can't really,
> please understand it's expressed with only the best of intentions]
>
You can't, because you are just pissed off and want to make me look bad,
without looking bad to the people reading this list. You are no more noble than
the next motherfucker, so stop playing the saint.
> your performance on this list doesn't need an explanation (and i for
> one was a bit insulted by it), i think i can safely speak for the
> majority when i say we're mostly bored of this sort of thing; having
> watched different personalities come and go over the years, it's a
> bit 1998. the only one that turned out to be interesting is NN, and
> that's coz NN is so damn rigorous and unstoppable. (meiko and ryu are
> my all time favorites though.)
Aren't you witty? I bet you wrote that with semi-closed lids and a languid
cigarette hanging from your lips. What do you think would be constructive
about a personal opinion that is derisive. Here is a personal opinion of mine,
why don't you work out more? Your body seems more 1950's middle age than
current. (Yea, I know, I look fat too - but I work out) As for NN, etc - I have
no desire to be a perpetual online personality constantly plaguing the lists, I
come and go for various learning, experimentation, and distribution purposes.
Check me out in the Usenet archives, circa 1995. Or the Source, circa 1985 (I
had the cute name Eternal Champion). Or Compuserve, circa 1992. Maybe even
Usenet circa 1981.
Now throw your pebbles and run.
BTW - is it now my turn to feel like you don't respect me? I feel so bad. And I
thought you liked me! Sob.
> --
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Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: Unfinished Haiku in Mpeg Format
Rock on!!
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Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
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Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]