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

Experience Sale update


First two experiences...

http://www.electrichands.com/experiences/sailing
http://www.electrichands.com/experiences/whitemice.html

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

DISCUSSION

Dream on Wong Pao and the Minstrel


I just read The Story of Wong Pao and the Minstrel from Kai Lung's Golden
Hours. Here is my response...

I, in a time past, often dreamt of a fog-covered world, seen from above, with
little peaks peaking out from the clouds.

On these mountaintops were men and women - hands raised and waving to each
other. Each had a golden band around their brow, with a chain leading back down
into the mists.

They fascinated me. I would ponder for hours on how they reached such heights.
I even wanted to be one of them, waving to others on these high levels.

Once, I even got a gold band placed upon my brow, and I started climbing. But
something on my back kept me from gaining my balance, and I would constantly
slide down the mountain.

Eventually, by virtue of my stubborn ego and pride, I poked my nose above the
clouds for the first time. And it stank and was cold. I was dismayed. How could
these people stand to stay? I tried to run down the mountain, to flee. But my
band had a golden chain like the rest, and at the other end of the chain was a
multitude of people, people who I had not noticed, who comprised the mountain.
They would pull my chain and yank me back as I tried to flee.

Now the climbing became an imperative, if I stopped, the people poked me with
sticks. If I tried to take the golden band off, the people would howl and
become a raging mob with fire ready to burn me. I was dying from all the burns
and holes in me.

Then, a day came, an explosion that was beyond comprehension. It rocked the
mountain. It knocked me from my feet and into a pool of water that refreshed my
wounds. Water, that once stilled, showed my reflection. And I saw what I had
forgotten. I had wings. The reason for my bad balance climbing.
I took the golden bands off and I flew.

And noticed what I had missed the first time of my dream - that the people
chained to the mountains were waving, not to each other, but to me and the
others like me, who were flying.

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

DISCUSSION

Re: WORDS


http://www.electrichands.com/sketches/fwords/idx3.htm

Please click the pictures

Quoting furtherfield <info@furtherfield.org>:

> BlankWORDS
> ARE
> MERELY
> STEPPING
> STONES
>
>
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DISCUSSION

ART EXPERIENCE Legal Contract


We are licensing artwork for life experience and future considerations, with
life experience a necessary component of each transaction... First sale is
tomorrow. Here is the legal contract for those interested. It is a
collaboration between myself, Donna, and lawyer/open knowledge expert Daniel
Ravicher

http://www.electrichands.com/danielravicher/artexContract.doc

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

DISCUSSION

Experience Sale - Update


In a prequel to the Experience Sale, we have had great success from people
unable to attend on this coming Saturday...

Highlights:
1) Lawyer will create contract to create Open Source license of IP, plus
exclusive licensing of physical works (no ownership transfer) - with initial
experience as a license fee (subsequent transfers also must be accompanied by
experience transfer fee) and service fees instead of purchase fees. Business
model based upon experience, service, is starting to take form.
2) First Experience purchase - trip to Perfume factory in Vermont, with
weekend stay and bottles of perfume
3) Second Experience purchase - dinner on roof in front of billboard.
4) Third Experience purchase - day at US Open.
5) Conde Nash executive is arranging magazine profiles.
6) All experience purchasers agree to pay yearly fee to maintain online
community.

Life is experience, we are searching for more. We are beginning a process of
experience gathering - finding knowledge, wisdom, memories, community. Our
first step is to rid ourselves of the accumulated souveniers of half a
lifetime, hopefully to share with people willing to spend time. Thus we are
having an EXPERIENCE SALE:

On Saturday, June 22, 2002, noon-6pm Donna and I, Electric Hands will be
holding an EXPERIENCE SALE of our paintings and access to our communities.
This means that you can purchase beautiful decorating and artistic
experiences/services (paintings, net.art) by providing us with a new
experience. For example, dinner with you at a resturaunt we have never been
to before. A bicycle ride with you to place we have never gone. A trip, a
party, an adventure.

Please come and share. DIRECTIONS: www.electrichands.com/contact.htm

Location 515 Greenwich Street,Suite 203, NYC Corner Spring/Greenwich Streets

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