joseph mcelroy
Since 2002
Works in New York United States of America

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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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Fwd: Thanks for your contribution to Rhizome.org!


I don't get a full year?

joseph & donna
www.electrichands.com
joseph franklyn mcelroy
corporate performance artist www.corporatepa.com

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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:52:57 -0500
From: Rhizome Gifts <gifts@rhizome.org>
Reply-To: Rhizome Gifts <gifts@rhizome.org>
Subject: Thanks for your contribution to Rhizome.org!
To: joseph mcelroy <joseph@electrichands.com>

Hi joseph,

Thank you for your contribution of $5.00 on
January 28, 2003. Your generous support will help us
continue to support new media art online.

Please keep this email message for your records.

Your membership will expire on January 15, 2003. We will remind you a month in
advance.

Sincerely,

The Rhizome Crew

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DISCUSSION

Re:


Someone needed to look good and came up with a clever plan.

Someone stronger would need to counter with a better plan.

Alternatively, when destruction occurs, there is opportunity for creation.

joseph & donna
www.electrichands.com
joseph franklyn mcelroy
corporate performance artist www.corporatepa.com

go shopping -> http://www.electrichands.com/shopindex.htm
call me 646 279 2309

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Quoting "marc.garrett" <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org>:

> Hi Joseph,
>
> This seems like a nationalistic accounting job, killing culture for cash.
>
> marc
>
>
> > The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh announced that it would
> > eliminate the entire Film and Video Department as a budget cut. (for
> > additional
> information....http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20030109judson3.asp
> > & http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20030108carnegie1.asp )
> >
> > joseph & donna
> > www.electrichands.com
> > joseph franklyn mcelroy
> > corporate performance artist www.corporatepa.com
> >
> > go shopping -> http://www.electrichands.com/shopindex.htm
> > call me 646 279 2309
> >
> > SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER CUPCAKEKALEIDOSCOPE - send email to
> > CupcakeKleidoscope-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
> > + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> > -> post: list@rhizome.org
> > -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> > -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> > -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> > +
> > Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> > Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
> >
> >

DISCUSSION

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The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh announced that it would
eliminate the entire Film and Video Department as a budget cut. (for
additional information....http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20030109judson3.asp
& http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20030108carnegie1.asp )

joseph & donna
www.electrichands.com
joseph franklyn mcelroy
corporate performance artist www.corporatepa.com

go shopping -> http://www.electrichands.com/shopindex.htm
call me 646 279 2309

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER CUPCAKEKALEIDOSCOPE - send email to
CupcakeKleidoscope-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

DISCUSSION

BM 2003


**BURNING MAN 2003 THEME!!!**

BEYOND BELIEF

"What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and
some magicS It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has
psychological roles to fulfill. You might not want it to be a
religion based on your own experienceS but that's like wanting to
clean up your dreams".

-- Gary Snyder

Beyond belief, beyond the dogmas, creeds, and metaphysical ideas of
religion, there exists immediate experience. It is from this primal
world that living faith arises. The intention of Beyond Belief is to
explore this mystery. In 2003 we will invite participants to create
interactive rites, ritual processions, elaborate images, shrines,
icons, and temples: visions of realities profoundly other and far
greater than our conscious selves. Our theme will occupy that
ambiguous territory that lies between reverence and ridicule, faith
and belief, the absurd and the dazzlingly sublime. The human urge to
make events, objects, actions and personalities sacred is protean. It
can fix on and inhabit anyone or anything. This year our art theme
will release this spirit in the Black Rock Desert.

joseph & donna
www.electrichands.com
joseph franklyn mcelroy
corporate performance artist www.corporatepa.com

go shopping -> http://www.electrichands.com/shopindex.htm
call me 646 279 2309

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER CUPCAKEKALEIDOSCOPE - send email to
CupcakeKleidoscope-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

DISCUSSION

Fwd: [CupcakeKleidoscope] Cupcake Special Announcement!


>EXPERIENCE OUR VIDEO
>
>DON'T MISS!!!
>
>Experience "The Cult of the Corporate Performance Artists" at
>A Taste of Art Cafe
>
>Video on display, by Joseph & Donna McElroy
>
>Opening: Wednesday January 8th, 2003 from 6-9pm
>
>Show runs January 7 - February 10, 2003
>
>A Taste of Art Cafe is located at 147 Duane Street (between Church
>and West Broadway) New York, NY 10013
>
>Phone: 212.964.5493
>Fax: 212.964.2671
>Email: info@atasteofart.com
>www.atasteofart.com
>
>Located in the heart of Tribeca, A Taste of Art is the first gourmet
>art gallery to showcase contemporary art and offer fine foods