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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: Any thoughts on this Death?
Holy shit! I peek in, while on a trip, what do I see? A incarnation of
mortality claiming to be an incarnation of immortality playing "I know you are,
but what am I?" games with Max.
Children should be seen and not heard.
ZEN and GOD are just three letter words to fight fear. It is all majik
formulas u c.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
mortality claiming to be an incarnation of immortality playing "I know you are,
but what am I?" games with Max.
Children should be seen and not heard.
ZEN and GOD are just three letter words to fight fear. It is all majik
formulas u c.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: Any thoughts on this Death?
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
>
> Speak about yourself, love.
>
You love me? Oh my god, I just told my wife and she got so jealous. We decided
to invite you over for dinner to see if you would fit in our little family.
But then, we remembered, when you chew your fingers to the bone, what do you
get, boney fingers. We don't like boney fingers, and as a death head I am sure
yours are much too thin for us.
> What fear my dear?
Are you shining headlights into my face and hoping I freeze so you can shoot
me? That was a good question from a dead head.
>
> That would seem applicable to your use of [lang]uij.
>
Pretty much mine, yours, and Theodore's. Though some mix the chemicals better,
drop less tubes, and don't cause explosions.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
>
> Speak about yourself, love.
>
You love me? Oh my god, I just told my wife and she got so jealous. We decided
to invite you over for dinner to see if you would fit in our little family.
But then, we remembered, when you chew your fingers to the bone, what do you
get, boney fingers. We don't like boney fingers, and as a death head I am sure
yours are much too thin for us.
> What fear my dear?
Are you shining headlights into my face and hoping I freeze so you can shoot
me? That was a good question from a dead head.
>
> That would seem applicable to your use of [lang]uij.
>
Pretty much mine, yours, and Theodore's. Though some mix the chemicals better,
drop less tubes, and don't cause explosions.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: Any thoughts on this Death?
Is that the best comeback you have? Thought you might give a little fun. Try
creativity when you get a chance. Ridicule only works when it is funny and
creative. Talk to you later, much later.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
creativity when you get a chance. Ridicule only works when it is funny and
creative. Talk to you later, much later.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Grape Farmer Fred
Here we are travelling around the country, visiting Burning Man, and I keep
looking for reason to introduce people to net.art. Yet find none. Will
net.art remain an elitist art form, available and useful to only a few
cloistered in cubicals or coffee shops?
Will Ascii Hearts or Genius Networks or Cyber Kitchens ever mean anything to
any but a few? How to connect it to the Grape Farmer named Fred, or the Naked
Wood Worker named Elizabeth, or the Mountain Man John?
Should they be connected?
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
looking for reason to introduce people to net.art. Yet find none. Will
net.art remain an elitist art form, available and useful to only a few
cloistered in cubicals or coffee shops?
Will Ascii Hearts or Genius Networks or Cyber Kitchens ever mean anything to
any but a few? How to connect it to the Grape Farmer named Fred, or the Naked
Wood Worker named Elizabeth, or the Mountain Man John?
Should they be connected?
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
NOMAD UPDATES
NOMAD UPDATE
Here we sit in Sidney, Nebraska, trying to get ready for trip to a party in
Iowa tonight. We have been many places, and this week we will try to introduce
you to them with addendums. For now, here is a peek at our leaving from North
Carolina and our first state Tennessee.
www.electrichands.com/experiences/nc (only one image)
www.electrichands.com/experiences/tennessee/idx3.htm (click on images (yes we
know about the spelling))
Here is a fun place we found along the way... www.bigtexan.com
Here we sit in Sidney, Nebraska, trying to get ready for trip to a party in
Iowa tonight. We have been many places, and this week we will try to introduce
you to them with addendums. For now, here is a peek at our leaving from North
Carolina and our first state Tennessee.
www.electrichands.com/experiences/nc (only one image)
www.electrichands.com/experiences/tennessee/idx3.htm (click on images (yes we
know about the spelling))
Here is a fun place we found along the way... www.bigtexan.com