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: Holla ye pampered jades of Asia, can ye draw but 20 leagues a day?


Rattled his bones

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

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DISCUSSION

re: Update 6/2/02 - after cupcakes


Quoting greenbelly@yahoo.com:

> The door opens onto a hallway.

When I was six years old, I started having health problems. I would get so
feverish that I would go into convulsions and have to be placed into the
hospital. My hearing started to disappear, and I had constant throat and head
aches. The doctors decided to take out the tonsils from my throat and adnoids
from my nose. They also put tubes in my ears. For some reason, anethestic did
not work too well on me and I woke up during the operation, they had to stop
and put me back to sleep. When I was in the recovery room, the nurses left me
unattended, except for my mother, thinking I would sleep for a long time. My
mother, always hungry, snuck out to get some candy at the machine. Of course,
I woke up and immediately sat up in bed, pulling at something in my nose. And
I remember a stream of blood pouring from my nose onto the bedsheets in front
of me. I totally freaked out, and tried to climb out of bed to run towards the
hallway. I think my mother came back before I got halfway out of the bed. I
don't really remember, it is all sort of dark. Except for the blood. I
sometimes still dream about blood pouring from my nose.

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

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A Distorted View of the Streets of NYC


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

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

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Re: They Rule II


When I first saw They Rule at the Whitney, it didn't work so I didn't like it
much. But when I saw it at eyebeam I thought it was pretty good. As a next
version, I would really love for him to go map out the money people, the CFOs,
the VCs, the Controllers, etc. These people actually have the power (except
for the few CEOs who created their own companies) You rarely see a CFO get
fired for bad corporate performance. I think he could map out some of that
info from the SEC Edgar database.

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