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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.
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.
Re:
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
> Someone who is practising martial arts for many years, often does not have
> to think anymore. He moves and reacts naturally and adjusts his defences
> according to the attacks. In a fight, fear is a bad advisor. In feudal
> Japan a samurai was thought that whoever took up his sword, had to be
> prepared to die. If he wanted to survive than, he could not win without
> muga (state of egolessness) mushin.
Funny, my Daddy always tole me that if I evaa pult a gun on someun, I'd betta
be ready to use it.
I say that with a southern accent at parties to get a laugh.
[now everybody go back to dancing, I am the wall flower today - got a sale to
prepare for]
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
> Someone who is practising martial arts for many years, often does not have
> to think anymore. He moves and reacts naturally and adjusts his defences
> according to the attacks. In a fight, fear is a bad advisor. In feudal
> Japan a samurai was thought that whoever took up his sword, had to be
> prepared to die. If he wanted to survive than, he could not win without
> muga (state of egolessness) mushin.
Funny, my Daddy always tole me that if I evaa pult a gun on someun, I'd betta
be ready to use it.
I say that with a southern accent at parties to get a laugh.
[now everybody go back to dancing, I am the wall flower today - got a sale to
prepare for]
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: For Kj (evolution, revolution)
No Bill Cosby Show reruns where you are? Well, it introduced an African-
American family as a normal (albiet funny) American family with a normal home
life... in other words it made it natural to assume that African American
families were just like white (being normal?) families in the eyes of White
America.
> Yes, but you engage yourself in influencing it -- I presume. Effectively, in
> some instances, I hope.
Somebody came by one our shows, a middle class businessman, and wrote in one of
our wall murals (where people got to write their services) and wrote "I am the
inside outsider, advancing creative destruction" - I thought he was pretty
silly. So I stopped trying to be an inside outsider. However, I am neither
an outsider or insider. So I observe, promote issues to both outsiders and
insiders, and go about with Donna creating a niche.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
American family as a normal (albiet funny) American family with a normal home
life... in other words it made it natural to assume that African American
families were just like white (being normal?) families in the eyes of White
America.
> Yes, but you engage yourself in influencing it -- I presume. Effectively, in
> some instances, I hope.
Somebody came by one our shows, a middle class businessman, and wrote in one of
our wall murals (where people got to write their services) and wrote "I am the
inside outsider, advancing creative destruction" - I thought he was pretty
silly. So I stopped trying to be an inside outsider. However, I am neither
an outsider or insider. So I observe, promote issues to both outsiders and
insiders, and go about with Donna creating a niche.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
EXPERIENCE SALE
EXPERIENCE SALE this Saturday, Sept 21 from 1-5pm at 515 Greenwich
Street, Suite 203, NYC 10013 Corner of Spring and Greenwich.
Exchange a life experience for artwork.
New!!! You can bring you own artwork to offer for
exchange of experience to our visitors, you just have to let us go
along to document it.
Street, Suite 203, NYC 10013 Corner of Spring and Greenwich.
Exchange a life experience for artwork.
New!!! You can bring you own artwork to offer for
exchange of experience to our visitors, you just have to let us go
along to document it.
Hollywood Balks at High-Tech Sanitizers
Hollywood Balks at High-Tech Sanitizers
Photofest
New technology can clean up popular films like "Titanic."
By RICK LYMAN in today's New York Times
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18
Photofest
New technology can clean up popular films like "Titanic."
By RICK LYMAN in today's New York Times
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18
Re: For Kj (my core)
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
> > Kandinskij, I am growing quite fond of you - always so irritable.
>
> Avoid qualifying my behavior with wishful projections.
> No irritability here. And that's nota subject to your opinion.
Actually, you are not in a position to supress or judge what is appropriate as
a subject for my opinion, this is a blustering that has no value. Please
refrain from using this meaningless type argument with me.
>
> How touching. Do you wet your panties too?
>
I think precedent has been set in that past that allows one to color their
conversations with metaphors and analogies. And while I cannot judge, it does
make me wonder if there are fears that you have not faced, such as allowing
yourself to explore your softer side in public (and please do not answer with
the "you are right, you cannot judge" obvious evasion)
> What does this have to do with conversation between you and I?
> Touching, but thoroughly uninteresting.
Actually nothing, but as in most conversations, subtexts exists from other
thoughts and conversations. Perhaps uninteresting to you, but as this is a
public forum, I am aware (and I am sure you are as well) that we do have an
audience. Sometimes I play to the audience (my only self-proclaimed title is
Corporate Performance Artist after all)
>
> No, you do it small-time--and you play the humble ordinary man.
> Frankly, if you're going to be a con-man, I'd rather you do it
> en masse. I like things being done 'properly'--not just timid toe
> dipping and giggling. But then again, I'm not much for timid ballerinas.
I don't play humble at all. I am rather arrogant and pompous. And I don't play
small time - I have made the big play a few times, so far to various degrees of
success - but artists, entrepreneurs who succeed, most fail several times
before they are successful. As for the "con man", if you mean someone who
takes advantage of somebody's confidence in them, I am sure I am "guilty" of
this. However, I do not place the "moral wrong" on this behavior that you do.
I have found in my experience that everyone is a "con man" - just a matter of
degree. While I can imagine someone loving their fear, I cannot imagine
someone who constantly corrects every misunderstanding that somebody else has
that is to their advantage.
>
> Mais oui.
>
Now we are getting somewhere, it is taking me a little while to get a glimmer
of understanding of your language, and you are only now getting a chance to
learn mine ( I know, you don't care).
> Mais oui, mais oui. Some things are not for everybody.
> However, passing judgement on things you care not to pursue--
> and perceive fallaciously is out of place.
I don't see any practical reason to call it "wrong" - perhaps it offends your
sense of propriety, but it does not offend mine. I am not concerned with
"true" or "false" - I am amused by the binary (thus my use of the 01 mantra to
be a little ironic)
> This is the same as revolution. And 'properly' motivated people
> cannot come about without full awareness-including of death.
No, I use revolution in the sense of first destroying old institutions and then
creating new ones. My preferred method is to assume control of old
institutions and then take them apart peacefully and rebuild them over a period
of time - such that a population never knows that a "revolution" took place.
>
> > I am not a moral man. I don't do things because a higher power has
> commanded
> > that these are "right" or "wrong."
>
> As if such a situation exists. Why do you ascribe your 'human'
> ego-dictatorial tendencies to 'higher powers'? Especially since
> you have no interest in such??
I don't understand you? Where do I ascribe my tendencies to "higher powers"?
As for ego, I fully admit to large ego which I go about deflating and using as
a source of amusement. I aspire to large things and am amused by myself for
being so. It is like this third voice in my head, commenting wryly on my
actions and thoughts.
> > I try to do things that make practical
> > sense within a society of individuals.
>
> To be practical requires awareness. Otherwise one must follow orders.
> I don't say the latter in derogatory manner either.
Yes, you have to be aware through many iterations of the consequences of
actions. Not many people can do this, thus their need for a book or leader to
follow.
>
> Ie, a function of the brain. Your brain is your core?
Which part and function of the brain? While I can use all the tools the brain
provides, I rely a great deal upon a reasoned intuition. Intuition being
function of the brain and not some supernatural power. However, being a
somewhat fanciful person, I imagine a connection to a large reservior of
thought power produced by the cummulated human race. This is more fantasy than
belief.
So what is your core?
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
> > Kandinskij, I am growing quite fond of you - always so irritable.
>
> Avoid qualifying my behavior with wishful projections.
> No irritability here. And that's nota subject to your opinion.
Actually, you are not in a position to supress or judge what is appropriate as
a subject for my opinion, this is a blustering that has no value. Please
refrain from using this meaningless type argument with me.
>
> How touching. Do you wet your panties too?
>
I think precedent has been set in that past that allows one to color their
conversations with metaphors and analogies. And while I cannot judge, it does
make me wonder if there are fears that you have not faced, such as allowing
yourself to explore your softer side in public (and please do not answer with
the "you are right, you cannot judge" obvious evasion)
> What does this have to do with conversation between you and I?
> Touching, but thoroughly uninteresting.
Actually nothing, but as in most conversations, subtexts exists from other
thoughts and conversations. Perhaps uninteresting to you, but as this is a
public forum, I am aware (and I am sure you are as well) that we do have an
audience. Sometimes I play to the audience (my only self-proclaimed title is
Corporate Performance Artist after all)
>
> No, you do it small-time--and you play the humble ordinary man.
> Frankly, if you're going to be a con-man, I'd rather you do it
> en masse. I like things being done 'properly'--not just timid toe
> dipping and giggling. But then again, I'm not much for timid ballerinas.
I don't play humble at all. I am rather arrogant and pompous. And I don't play
small time - I have made the big play a few times, so far to various degrees of
success - but artists, entrepreneurs who succeed, most fail several times
before they are successful. As for the "con man", if you mean someone who
takes advantage of somebody's confidence in them, I am sure I am "guilty" of
this. However, I do not place the "moral wrong" on this behavior that you do.
I have found in my experience that everyone is a "con man" - just a matter of
degree. While I can imagine someone loving their fear, I cannot imagine
someone who constantly corrects every misunderstanding that somebody else has
that is to their advantage.
>
> Mais oui.
>
Now we are getting somewhere, it is taking me a little while to get a glimmer
of understanding of your language, and you are only now getting a chance to
learn mine ( I know, you don't care).
> Mais oui, mais oui. Some things are not for everybody.
> However, passing judgement on things you care not to pursue--
> and perceive fallaciously is out of place.
I don't see any practical reason to call it "wrong" - perhaps it offends your
sense of propriety, but it does not offend mine. I am not concerned with
"true" or "false" - I am amused by the binary (thus my use of the 01 mantra to
be a little ironic)
> This is the same as revolution. And 'properly' motivated people
> cannot come about without full awareness-including of death.
No, I use revolution in the sense of first destroying old institutions and then
creating new ones. My preferred method is to assume control of old
institutions and then take them apart peacefully and rebuild them over a period
of time - such that a population never knows that a "revolution" took place.
>
> > I am not a moral man. I don't do things because a higher power has
> commanded
> > that these are "right" or "wrong."
>
> As if such a situation exists. Why do you ascribe your 'human'
> ego-dictatorial tendencies to 'higher powers'? Especially since
> you have no interest in such??
I don't understand you? Where do I ascribe my tendencies to "higher powers"?
As for ego, I fully admit to large ego which I go about deflating and using as
a source of amusement. I aspire to large things and am amused by myself for
being so. It is like this third voice in my head, commenting wryly on my
actions and thoughts.
> > I try to do things that make practical
> > sense within a society of individuals.
>
> To be practical requires awareness. Otherwise one must follow orders.
> I don't say the latter in derogatory manner either.
Yes, you have to be aware through many iterations of the consequences of
actions. Not many people can do this, thus their need for a book or leader to
follow.
>
> Ie, a function of the brain. Your brain is your core?
Which part and function of the brain? While I can use all the tools the brain
provides, I rely a great deal upon a reasoned intuition. Intuition being
function of the brain and not some supernatural power. However, being a
somewhat fanciful person, I imagine a connection to a large reservior of
thought power produced by the cummulated human race. This is more fantasy than
belief.
So what is your core?
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]