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: Re: You are the Agent of Alternative Reality


> will have achieved more than most activist art projects do, by virtue
> of the fact that it will have literally infiltrated the corporations.

Except that this sort of "infiltration" has been done on a regular basis for
years. Talk to a lot of designers with any art/political aspirations, they
will give you the wink-wink talk of how they put subversive images into their
designs and point out how clever they were. Programmers also. I used to get IBM
to put out applications with the occasional help message saying "Only God or
Joseph McElroy can help you now"... (I was a "clever" pup) If caught, more
likely made into part of the corporate story instead of causing any problems
for the corporation.

The point, is that corporations and public are only going to view this as a
publicity ploy by some smart-ass designers. Unless someone is willing to do it
in a big, huge way - I mean sacrifice a multi-million dollar contract, kill the
design firm, never be trusted by corporate america, kind of way. Then some
stories might focus on "Why" they did it.

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

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Re: [thingist] Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Open experience sale


Hey Karl! You have great insight.

Flames are not much different that when men (on occasion women, but rarely)
used to get into fistfights (before guns/knives) and became good buddies
afterwards.

Anybody remember that John Wayne movie where he goes back to Ireland and to his
roots, only to have to fight his way to respect and friendship at the end?

I liked that movie.

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

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Re: [thingist] Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Open experience sale


Judson, pay attention to the words you use - logic is not the only thing to
communicate with, there is empathy as well.

Jokes are always at somebody's expense. You either take or pay. I like to Pay
(respect).

> But be nice to people you don't like in general. Nothing to win,
> nothing to lose. but seeing everything as gain/loss is bad for your
> blood pressure. (joke or not, it's true). save barking for actual
> threats.

This is a choice, I like to fight to either get to the point of resolving
differences and being friends, or have them leave me alone.

> here's a poster from a documentary somebody made a few years ago when
> I thought you still loved me. (oh well) ...

Now this is funny.

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

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Re: [thingist] Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Open experience sale


I also like the recent movie "The Fast Runner" - at the end, the hero didn't
kill the community members who killed his brother, but the community did exile
them. So, controlled fighting, without bloody ending - best.

Quoting "Joseph Franklyn McElroy Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]"
<joseph@electrichands.com>:

> Hey Karl! You have great insight.
>
> Flames are not much different that when men (on occasion women, but rarely)
>
> used to get into fistfights (before guns/knives) and became good buddies
> afterwards.
>
> Anybody remember that John Wayne movie where he goes back to Ireland and to
> his
> roots, only to have to fight his way to respect and friendship at the end?
>
> I liked that movie.
>
> --
> Joseph Franklyn McElroy
> Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]

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EXPERIENCE SALE


Come by our studio on Saturday, June 22, noon-6pm for our EXPERIENCE SALE. You
can buy paintings and community access by giving us a new experience. Spend
some time, be creative, have some fun with us. And get a nice decorative and
artistic service as well!

Directions: http://www.electrichands.com/contact.htm

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