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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.
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.
bale of hay
The chances of me,
Having another
Epiphany,
Are as likely today
As a bale of hay
Falling on me.
Having another
Epiphany,
Are as likely today
As a bale of hay
Falling on me.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Thom Yorke / Howard Zinn
In email, announce need for printed page,
On web page,
create table with borders on and
two columns of 5 squares each, with borders of gray
left column contains background colored black squares,
right column contains background colored gray squares,
left column contains series of pictures - cube cage by lewitt, neon
"significato" by kosuth, film grain "WITH A WARM EMBRACE COME (WHAT MAY)" by
wiener, neon "signficato" by lewitt, cube cage by wiener
right column contains parts of a sentence in white text - "I have asked",
"hardcore conceptual art", "to be my bride", "and hardcore conceptual art",
"has agreed."
Ask people for advice ASAP.
Reponses
I think you should reverse the columns, just because.
I think it should be pink
I think the sentence should be ""The most lucky thing that happened to me
was running into Sal LeWitt in 1975"
joseph
----- Original Message -----
From: "M. River" <mriver102@yahoo.com>
To: <list@rhizome.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:03 AM
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Re: Re: Thom Yorke / Howard Zinn
> Eryk Salvaggio wrote:
>
> >
> > What's wrong with reality shows, exactly?
> >
> > -e.
> >
>
> Hello Eryk,. Thanks for the post. Here are some random thoughts.
>
> 1. Please compare and contrast Felix Gonzales Torres (1957-1996) work made
as an individual artist to the work made with the collective Group Material.
>
> 2. I am guessing your reality show question is in contrast to the idea of
art as a circus or spectacle. I would like to point out that reality shows
are scripted and edited and one should be careful about thinking of them as
"real" or "truth'. On the other hand - the circus or opera, although staged
and artificial in nature, sometimes brings out empathy that might be held
back by subtler meatheads.
>
> Okay, I am good at stating the obvious so far.
>
> I am also guessing that your question may be more of about methods of
narrative in political art. Is the theater of art blocking our ability to
find meaning or truth? Is minimal or conceptual strategies more direct than
work of adornment. I'm not sure. Then again, I'm not even sure what this
thread is about.
>
> 3. What's your plan for Thanksgiving? (non-us contextual note:
thanksgiving is an American holiday that, in general, revolves around being
thankful for the harvest, family and for some strange reason, football). No
Tofurky (tofu turkey) for me this year. My vegetarian friends are out of
town.
>
> 4. and speaking of giving thanks to our family and also HCA (Hardcore
Conceptual Art), here is a rough layout I made last night for a work to be
shown in a print magazine this winter. Hope you enjoy it. Any comments would
help. I need to get it done ASAP.
>
> http://tinjail.com/ca
>
> Well that's it for me.
> +
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
On web page,
create table with borders on and
two columns of 5 squares each, with borders of gray
left column contains background colored black squares,
right column contains background colored gray squares,
left column contains series of pictures - cube cage by lewitt, neon
"significato" by kosuth, film grain "WITH A WARM EMBRACE COME (WHAT MAY)" by
wiener, neon "signficato" by lewitt, cube cage by wiener
right column contains parts of a sentence in white text - "I have asked",
"hardcore conceptual art", "to be my bride", "and hardcore conceptual art",
"has agreed."
Ask people for advice ASAP.
Reponses
I think you should reverse the columns, just because.
I think it should be pink
I think the sentence should be ""The most lucky thing that happened to me
was running into Sal LeWitt in 1975"
joseph
----- Original Message -----
From: "M. River" <mriver102@yahoo.com>
To: <list@rhizome.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:03 AM
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Re: Re: Thom Yorke / Howard Zinn
> Eryk Salvaggio wrote:
>
> >
> > What's wrong with reality shows, exactly?
> >
> > -e.
> >
>
> Hello Eryk,. Thanks for the post. Here are some random thoughts.
>
> 1. Please compare and contrast Felix Gonzales Torres (1957-1996) work made
as an individual artist to the work made with the collective Group Material.
>
> 2. I am guessing your reality show question is in contrast to the idea of
art as a circus or spectacle. I would like to point out that reality shows
are scripted and edited and one should be careful about thinking of them as
"real" or "truth'. On the other hand - the circus or opera, although staged
and artificial in nature, sometimes brings out empathy that might be held
back by subtler meatheads.
>
> Okay, I am good at stating the obvious so far.
>
> I am also guessing that your question may be more of about methods of
narrative in political art. Is the theater of art blocking our ability to
find meaning or truth? Is minimal or conceptual strategies more direct than
work of adornment. I'm not sure. Then again, I'm not even sure what this
thread is about.
>
> 3. What's your plan for Thanksgiving? (non-us contextual note:
thanksgiving is an American holiday that, in general, revolves around being
thankful for the harvest, family and for some strange reason, football). No
Tofurky (tofu turkey) for me this year. My vegetarian friends are out of
town.
>
> 4. and speaking of giving thanks to our family and also HCA (Hardcore
Conceptual Art), here is a rough layout I made last night for a work to be
shown in a print magazine this winter. Hope you enjoy it. Any comments would
help. I need to get it done ASAP.
>
> http://tinjail.com/ca
>
> Well that's it for me.
> +
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
another video and text work
http://www.electrichands.com/cleaning_up_a_mess
we sit in a small office in a mall at The Point with a large rectangle entr=
y way such that the world outside looks like it is happening on a large scr=
een TV. Both ways.
joseph and donna
we sit in a small office in a mall at The Point with a large rectangle entr=
y way such that the world outside looks like it is happening on a large scr=
een TV. Both ways.
joseph and donna
Re: Re: two silent movies
I think this is excellent as well. I have been working on taking some video
sources, such as porn and gardening how-to videos, exporting as an
individual series of bitmaps via Virtual Dub, modifying each as a separate
image in Photoshop/Gimp, then importing the series into Flash to work with
the text/poems. I have done some of this with the shorts already, but not
to obvious effect. Michael continues to give me insights into new
directions.
joseph
----- Original Message -----
From: "ruth catlow" <ruth.catlow@furtherfield.org>
To: "Michael Szpakowski" <szpako@yahoo.com>; "list" <list@rhizome.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 2:53 PM
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: two silent movies
>
>
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/portrait_of_the
_artist_in_his_studio.mov
>
> I especially like the formal possibilities opened up by this piece of
Michael's. A movie where the frame by frame changes are dramatically
different but the overall image has a very simple continuity. It uses the
fact that a Quicktime movie lends itself to a frame by frame viewing to
suggest a
> kind of quantum experience in the whole.
>
> Are there other movies (net art, art or mainstream) that do this, other
than as a reference to subliminal method?
> hmm...
>
> :-)
> Ruth
> http://www.furtherfield.org
>
>
> +
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
sources, such as porn and gardening how-to videos, exporting as an
individual series of bitmaps via Virtual Dub, modifying each as a separate
image in Photoshop/Gimp, then importing the series into Flash to work with
the text/poems. I have done some of this with the shorts already, but not
to obvious effect. Michael continues to give me insights into new
directions.
joseph
----- Original Message -----
From: "ruth catlow" <ruth.catlow@furtherfield.org>
To: "Michael Szpakowski" <szpako@yahoo.com>; "list" <list@rhizome.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 2:53 PM
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: two silent movies
>
>
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/portrait_of_the
_artist_in_his_studio.mov
>
> I especially like the formal possibilities opened up by this piece of
Michael's. A movie where the frame by frame changes are dramatically
different but the overall image has a very simple continuity. It uses the
fact that a Quicktime movie lends itself to a frame by frame viewing to
suggest a
> kind of quantum experience in the whole.
>
> Are there other movies (net art, art or mainstream) that do this, other
than as a reference to subliminal method?
> hmm...
>
> :-)
> Ruth
> http://www.furtherfield.org
>
>
> +
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>