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: finding net.art in the rhizome artbase


Tim, we don't need a lesson in bucking up. Eryk's point is taken, however
the point of disagreeing with organizing a historical record into a best-of
based upon a finite (and small) set of opinions accumulated during a finite
(and small) period of time is mine.

I like the curatorial record, giving named body to the opinion to eliminate
the "authoratative" voice of "us" who exist (disembodied) to judge best-of.

joseph

----- Original Message -----
From: "t.whid" <twhid@twhid.com>
To: <list@rhizome.org>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: finding net.art in the rhizome artbase

> re: competition
>
> Eryk's point, that one shouldn't be made to compete without one's
> consent, makes sense; but the rest of the comments regarding
> competition don't address his main point: being roped into a
> competition without consent.
>
> There is nothing wrong with judging art on it's quality. Some of it is
> good, some of it sucks.
>
> Artists attempting to make a career of it need to get used to people
> judging your work, it happens all the time. You apply for grants,
> residencies, galleries and etc and someone judges you at that point.
>
> MTAA has been judged poorly by many people many times. These people are
> wrong. But tho we've been treated poorly time and again by these judges
> we understand that it is something one must endure in order to create
> art that gets noticed. It can even help one grow when one is judged
> mediocre of a failure.
>
> So, I would be interested in a competition within the artbase (tho
> MTAA's strongest work isn't represented). But Eryk's point needs to be
> addressed before we go forward.
>
> > Can we not have a format without the competitive
> > element?
>
> On Nov 7, 2003, at 10:55 AM, nathaniel stern wrote:
>
> > This would not be a
> > competition (best or worst art?),
> >
> > Feisal Ahmad, who can be found @ feisal@rhizome.org online, so boldly
> > stated
> > the following, on 11/7/03 5:15 PM:
> >
> >> I think we understand your feelings on the potential downside of the
> >> 'competitive nature' of such an idea and it's definitely a valid
> >> point.
>
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> http://www.mteww.com
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DISCUSSION

Re: Re[2]: RHIZOME_RAW: finding net.art in the rhizome artbase


Agreed...I speculate that many people from each different "era" of rhizome
are no longer active, thus judging would be based upon current interests,
not what was best at the time. I don't care to be part of a People
Magazine's best dressed list.

joseph the barbarian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eryk Salvaggio" <eryk@maine.rr.com>
To: <list@rhizome.org>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: RHIZOME_RAW: finding net.art in the rhizome artbase

>
>
> I never agreed to enter my work into a competition when I allowed my work
to
> be shown on Rhizome's servers (for no compensation.) Nor am I comfortable
> with the idea of any artists work "competing" in a populist pony show
> without thier permission.
>
> -e.
>
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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: art branding


Artful dodging my dear namesake does not an answer make, and there won't be
any applause because all the brands are taken and there is no waiting line.

joseph the barbarian mcelroy

----- Original Message -----
From: "atomic elroy" <atomic@pcisys.net>
To: <list@rhizome.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 6:47 PM
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Re: art branding

> joseph mcelroy wrote:
>
> > Who are they? Which game? Resist what?
> >
> > joseph
>
>
>
>
> now, you've got it!
> cheers to you!
> AE03.
> say cheese!
> http://www.atomicelroy.com
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DISCUSSION

Re: art branding


Who are they? Which game? Resist what?

joseph

----- Original Message -----
From: "atomic elroy" <atomic@pcisys.net>
To: <list@rhizome.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 8:11 PM
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: art branding

> Fellow Artiste'
>
>
> resistance is futile!
> brand thyself.
>
> then beat them at their own game!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> say cheese!
>
> AE03
> http://www.atomicelroy.com
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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: ms REALLY sucks


A friend of mine, Dan Ravicher has recently created a non-profit
organization called The Public Patent Foundation to defend civil liberties
and free markets from illegitimate patents (http://www.pubpat.org). He
comes from big law firm background but has been heavily involved in Open
Source issues. His says that these big corporations very seldom try to
dispute the legitamacy of patents because that helps their competitors as
well as them, instead they just try to prove they are not infringing. He is
planning to go after the validity of bad patents. One of the ones he is
considering is the EULA one.

He gots some funding but not a lot, so if anyone is interested in helping
him out (especially re: prior art or resources), here is the contact info:

Public Patent Foundation

404 W 51st St., Suite 3A

New York, NY 10019

(212) 977-9677

info@pubpat.org

www.pubpat.org

joseph the barbarian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rachel Greene" <rachel@rhizome.org>
To: "t.whid" <twhid@mteww.com>
Cc: <list@rhizome.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Re: ms REALLY sucks

> If it's any consolation, I share your rage and encourage you to bring
> it to diverse locations. It's hard to find the catharsis though when MS
> is so everywhere even if I try to keep it out of my modus operandi. By
> the way, I was freaked out though when I saw the subject line of your
> post cuz I thought you were referring to Ms. magazine. We should change
> it so there isn't a weird association with female nomenclature/feminist
> rags! -- Rachel
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 10:21 AM, t.whid wrote:
>
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > I can't believe that this is all you have to say on the matter.
> >
> > Is it simply not that big of a deal to you? You're being forced to
> > recode every page that uses shockwave because of someone's greed. The
> > web is about to become much more user unfriendly because of someone's
> > greed.
> >
> > Doesn't that piss you off?
> >
> > It pisses me off, it pisses me off a lot.
> >
> > Everyone seems to be rolling over for this. There isn't much
> > discussion at all except Dominey
> > (http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/001254.shtml).
> >
> > Where's the outrage?!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Jim Andrews wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>> well not really.
> >>>
> >>> not sure if they suck, or the bastards who sued 'em suck; but it
> >>> looks like it's on the way.
> >>>
> >>> fun, oh, fun.
> >>>
> >>> (first time i've ever found myself siding with MS on an issue.)
> >>>
> >>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupdate/
> >>
> >> Here's a page for those who have created pages using Macromedia
> >> Flash/Shockwave affected by this thing:
> >>
> >> http://macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/
> >>
> >> ja
> >>
> >>
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