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: [thingist] Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Care2 E-Card from Rachel Greene


howdy old friend, good to hear from you again.

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Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:

> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, andrei wrote:
>
> > i just can't understand this discussion... it is boring, anyway.
>
> You can't understand it, it must be boring?
>
> > Anyway, rhizome.org is an intervention in reality,
>
> Not really. No more than my coming over and cutting your arm off
> would be an 'intervention in reality'.
>
> I'm not sure why non-physical 'violence' is regarded as 'just fine.'
> Is this supposed to be a list of at least informed_ new media
> 'personalities' and 'artists' or a vehicle for spreading of
> ignorance and mistreatment with a yawn, a pose, and a fashionable blase
> expression, meanwhile uttering robotic cultural propaganda like
> a broken record?
>
> `, . ` `k a r e i' ? ' D42
>
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DISCUSSION

Re: [thingist] Re: RHIZOME_RAW: beuys


Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:

>
> > There is no unit called "people",
> > we serve individuals per their requirements.
>
> Ah so defensive dear. You are incapable of serving individuals
> per their requirements, as you are incapable of discerning what those
> are.

There is no defensiveness my friend, I enjoy the conversation and toss in
sticks to stoke the fire, however if you wish to view me as defensive, I will
not stand in your way.

The served must serve and the serving must be served.

>
> > To get you must give, or better to give you must get.
>
> Meaningless infantile chatter.

not at all, it represents a lack of duality.

> > However, free is not free of cost, but free of attachments.
>
> Which you are not.

Are responsibilities attachements?

>
> Ne. Freedom is not automatic.

Discernment of freedom is not automatic, freedom exists automaticially.

>
> > So we only point out the freedom that exists.
>
> What you point out is a machine falling apart and lashing about.
> You have no freedom, nor the capacity to 'point it out' to anyone.
> The spiral of self-destruction.

We are building. From a place of freedom.

>
> > The Experience Contract is a trap and an escape.
>
> Cue self-promotional ego-attached peddling.

I present not out of peddling, but sureness.

>
> Too bad this is all meaningless.

Not for those who can understand.

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DISCUSSION

Re: beuys


> lives, from our jobs to our political activities, become a kind of artistic
> practice. it's a radical concept, one that challenges traditional notions
> of art, art making, authorship, etc.

in practice, artists have been all too eager to accept the definition when
applied to activities of their own, yet not particularly eager to accept
"non-artists" claims of artistic activities.

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Quoting Mark Tribe <mt@rhizome.org>:

> At 07:06 PM 11/14/2002 -0800, -IID42 Kandinskij @27+ wrote:
> >On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Mark Tribe wrote:
> > > is it really so problematic to think of rhizome.org as merging art and
> > > online community?
> >
> > Yes, since you're not really the 'author' and you claim authorship.
>
> not at all.
>
> saying that i think of rhizome as social sculpture and of myself as an
> artist in that context is not a claim of authorship. my understanding of
> beuys' notion of social sculpture is that it enables everyone, or at least
> every participant, to become an artist. this doesn't mean that everyone
> starts making things that look like art, but rather that our everyday
> lives, from our jobs to our political activities, become a kind of artistic
> practice. it's a radical concept, one that challenges traditional notions
> of art, art making, authorship, etc.
>
> in beuys' words: "every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called
> to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and
> structures that shape and condition our lives."
>
> + the best is the enemy of the good
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DISCUSSION

EXPERIENCE SALES DOC/ NOMAD UPDATE


Political. Politics. Policy. Gogogogogogogogogogogo.
It still a football game and I don't like to play, but the doctor sticks a
needle into my knee anyway....

EXPERIENCE SALE DOCUMENTATION

Our collector, Jacqlyn, provided us with the experience of Carl McCall's
campaign for the Governor of our state of New York. Jackie worked on McCall's
campaign in a fundraising capacity. On Monday, 11-4-02, Jackie invited us to
attend a rally for McCall at a church in Harlem. This pre-election rally
included the best and the brightest in New York politics: just to name drop -
former NYC mayor David Dinkins, Rev Al Sharpton, Congressman Charles Rangel,
Senators Charles Schumer & Hillary Clinton, and former president (now Harlem
HomeBoy Bill Clinton). Each, along with several other politicians from the
local Harlem community, as well as New York City and State legislators, spoke
eloquently and passionately (well rehearsed) of our needs and their plans to
work diligently to meet them. On Tuesday, 11-5-02, after the polls closed, we
attended the celebration party for McCall, held at the local 32BJ union hall
located on the Avenue of the Americas. Music and dancing, drinks flowing and
good times being had by all (except the ones that took losing to heart). Many
in the crowd had truly earned this night of celebration - toiling hours on the
campaign to get out the vote, assisting in bringing the McCall message (as it
were) to the people, and making sure that resources (yes) remained available.
Carl McCall did not win this time, but the spirit and the energy of his
campaign filled the air and the hearts of all present (sort of). After his
gracious (did he have a choice?) concession speech, we continued to enjoy the
party and were quite ecstatic (free drinks) to be present.

Rally: www.electrichands.com/experiences/rally/idx3.htm
Party: www.electrichands.com/experiences/mccall/idx3.htm

Collector/Collaborator Isaac took us to tour IFF-International Flavors &
Fragrance-in Hazlet, NJ this summer. We had technical difficulties and lost all
our pictures. However, we recently had an intimate collectors gathering at his
apartment where his painting (and his sister Jasse's) are hung. Additionally,
we did find the voice recording we made at the end of his experience. So we
combined these events to produce a little experience piece.

http://www.electrichands.com/experiences/isaac

NOMAD UPDATE

Smoooooth. Smooth. Silk and flesh. Long, fast greyhounds and tall, thin
willow trees. A late night lounge for the smooth set. Wicked. A naughty Betty
Boop and a mean, dashing king, dangerous people without the danger. Sharp and
smooth. We, joseph and donna are "we", slide into a glove made for us. Head
and hands bob up and down. Someone asks if we are lovers. Someone else gives
us a teddy bear. Click, click, click. The last singer bangs his head on the
microphone. He knows how to be mean. And smooth.

Donna says:

The Deep Dish Cabaret was an entertaining night we won't soon forget!! We, and
some of our friends/collectors, felt inebriated by the full evening of NY's
best & most vivacious performers on the cabaret scene. With 2 sets of 4 ten
minute acts, we enjoyed an operetta based on the wizard of oz, stand up comedy,
comedy sketches, solo performers of music, performance music which included
one band's use of a plastic garbage pail for percussion as well as another's
choice of a hand saw, played to sweet perfection. And the final performance of
a band that was just so good and so damn smooth and mean - it was like the band
was a hammer wrapped in silk and they just completely and utterly smashed it
against us, but the silk cushioned the blow and made it a caress. The band even
carries around this very sexy chair on which the lead to sings, sits & plays
guitar. For us, this was an incredibly stylish way to share time with friends
and we look forward to digging the deep dish again.

joseph (cor e form art) + (porat per ance ist)
frank + lyn - mc + El + roy

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DISCUSSION

Re: the scott baio litmus test


Number of results on Google for the keywords scott baio and joseph mcelroy:
scott baio( 25 800 results) versus joseph mcelroy ( 52 000 results)

Results for joseph franklyn mcelroy (2500 results) loser
Results for donna mcelroy (40 100 results) winner
Results for joseph and donna (910 000 results) winner
Results for joseph and donna mcelroy (10 500 results) loser
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Quoting Curt Cloninger <curt@lab404.com>:

> Dear friends on the rhizome raw list,
>
> Hi. It's me, curt.
>
> As a competetive American male intuitively seeking a simple and
> indisputable method of clearly indentifying "winners" (even in
> non-competetive areas of hazy subjectivity such as contemporary art),
> I've come up with the Scott Baio Litmus Test.
>
> "Who are the GOOD artists?" "who are the BEST artists?" I know I'm
> not allowed to ask these questions, but they continue to arise. I'm
> not allowed to answer these questions based on whether an artist's
> work is actually good or not; because there are lots of artists whose
> work really sucks, but who nevertheless assure me that they are
> succeeding as artists. Some of these sucky artists point to their
> gallery exhibits as proof of success, others point to their
> recognition in festivals, others to their academic degrees and
> research, and the more banal point to the amount of money their art
> has procured from patrons whom they both ridicule and disdain.
> Surely there must be a less subjective way of measuring success?
>
> And there is! Introducing the Scott Baio Litmus Test (hereafter
> referred to as the SBLT). Contemporary artists can't really be in it
> for the big money (since only about 3 contemporary artists are making
> any big money). Too obligatorily cynical to be in it simply for the
> joys of creation or the mere "fun of it," I figure most contemporary
> artists are in it for the fame. Well, Scott Baio was pretty famous
> in his day too. Alas, Scott's day was fleeting and is now 30 years
> gone. (The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. Cf:
> http://www.neuralust.com/~curt/scott/baio.jpg )
>
> Scott's medium was not even the internet, whereas most contemporary
> artists are all wired and such. So I figure, if in your heyday, and
> in your own medium, you're not any more famous than Scott Baio, how
> can you call yourself a success? Hence the SBLT --
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> the SBLT:
> 1. go to http://www.googlefight.com
> 2. enter "scott baio" in one field (don't forget the quotation marks).
> 3. enter "your name" in the other field (where "your name" is your
> name, and don't forget the quotation marks).
> 4. submit and observe the results.
> 5. if scott wins, shrink your head, keep on self-pimpin', and try
> again in a couple of years.
> 6. if you win (and your name is not something generic like "jennifer
> smith"), congratulations, you are a successful contemporary artist.
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
> Hopefully, this simple test will put to rest once and for all any
> sticky issues of aesthetic value, artistic worth, and ugly
> accusations of outright suckiness.
>
> your friend,
> curt
>
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> _
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