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: Death where is thy sting/Physician heal thyself


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

> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Joseph Franklyn McElroy Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance]
> Art[ist] wrote:
>
> > But literacy is dead.
>
> Dead? No. Your commentaries make the implicit assumption that I dislike
> illiteracy--and couldn't be further from the truth. Unfortunately,
> illiteracy is not the same as pretending to be-that-thing-you-heard
> -about-in-new-age-shaman-thing-while-still-pretending-to-be-literate.

I claim to be neither literate or illiterate. I am not particularly interested
in this, yet it seems to consume your time worrying about whether you, me, or
Gunga Din is literate. Literacy is important to a very small world.

>
> > I killed it with my great big sledge hammer and a net of electric fibers.
>
> Chuckle. hardly. You have no idea what you're talking about.
> You can't even 'touch' literacy least of all kill it.
> Secondy this kind of 'murder' belongs to literacy proper.
> Ie, you have to be literate in order to commit what you're saying.

Oh yeah, I had to be a dragon to kill a dragon. Be the ball. Do you have big
goofy grin like Chevy Chase? It would work very well here.

>
> > Now it is going to be really hard to figure out who is the smartest, don't
> you
> > think?
>
> You suffer from some delusion that I care about 'smarts'.
> maybe you should start paying attention, boy-o. I don't
> know if you selectively choose to mis-remember my statements
> that I admire genuinely illiterate people, and I enjoy
> them far more than this pretense literacy.

The deluded are those people who believe they know a truth, like knowing the
nature of literacy.

>
> You're a whole different story though--a 'literate' monkey
> pretending to be 'illiterate'. You so native, man.

Me don't pretend, me perform as the whim hits me. I am a performance artist,
get it ploughboy?

> Idiotic ascription.

I wonder why your favorite word is idiot? Limited vocabulary?

> > Now Fido, play with my words.
>
> I don't 'play' with words, love.
> Yet another idiotic ascription.
> And if you paid attention for two cents worth, you'd have noticed.
> Oh aware, conscious, illiterate native you.

You don't play? Pity your playmates.

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

DISCUSSION

Re: For Kandinskij


Yo cowboy, I never claimed a brand name. You are pretty good a labeling
though. That means you don't have to think anymore. Packaged thoughts, "knee
jerk" responses, boring boring boring.

Come on Fido, tell me how I am an 1) an idiot 2) knee jerk responder 3) pimp 4)
self indulgent 5) debasing myself.

Oh yes, I forgot the endearing term. Let see, my little piggly wiggly.

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

DISCUSSION

Re: Max Herman & Writing comment


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

>
> Meaningless idiocy.
>

I think you mean "meaningless to idiots"

> > Well, I say it is so, so it is so.
>
> As above.

ditto

> >
> > Can I quote you on that?
>
> No, because you don't understand it.
>

Well, I will anyway. Bet you don't understand that.

> > Logic is a tool to play with once and a while. It has its useful moments.
>
> Not really.

Is "not really" the opposite of "really"?

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

DISCUSSION

Re: For Kandinskij


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

>
> Yes. And it's not any of your concern.
> Spare me your judgement--and stay out of it.
> You're not a qualified judge of my actions.

Yes I am. I just wrote myself a certificate of authority to judge any and all
actions by Kandinskij or any other person of total understanding.

> The formulaic brain sees formulae.

How do you cook your breakfast?

> Unlike you, I do understand.

Mister Understanding

>
> No, it isn't. I understand what needs to be understood.

Said the redneck farmer as he shot the dog.

> This is not what I am doing, and avoid passing opinionated
> blind judgement as what I am doing.

I just ammended my certificate to allow me to pass blind judgement as well.

>
> I am neither a slave, nor hard coded, nor do I possess opinions.
> You are talking to about yourself.

I know you are but what am I.

>
> > Listen sometimes.
>
> I do. You want my listening to conform to your opinion of listening,
> and for me to behave as you think_ I should, and conduct my
> conversationa, as you think_ I should.

What? I didn't hear you.

>
> Sod off dictatorial brain-monkey.

Ooh, Ooh - he is name calling!!! You are so insecure.

>
> > That is how conversations work.
>
> No, it isn't. Take your idiotic flat formulae elsewhere.
>

Poor dear.

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

DISCUSSION

Re: For Kandinskij


Quoting Max Herman <maxnmherman@hotmail.com>:

>
>
> Shit man I can't get it out of my head that he's right. Maybe not about you
> all but about me and pimp/whore stagnation on my part, masochistic martyrdom
> via vainglory, and fascism/control obsession.
>

He is like a fortune teller, who uses common themes to get people to believe
they have insight. It is not hard to figure out that everybody has back pains,
have had a death in the family, and are missing something.

He takes pot-shots with different categories of stereotyped complexes, hoping
something will hurt. So what? Who is perfect? Learn to go towards the center
in your behavior, live the moment, and think of a positive way to a good
future.

If you believe, (as I), that the powers that be (hawks) have gained too much
power away from center, then we must make positive actions (or perhaps positive
myth expressions) to be part of the corrective centering.

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