joseph and donna mcelroy
The McElroys are a husband and wife collaborative artist and business
team.
The have become active in the net.art arena over the last three years
and have participated in serveral collaborative projects, such as one
for the collaborative group Screenburn. The first results are soon to
be published in Beehive, but are available here ...
http://www.electrichands.com/sketches/collab2/
As evidenced by the essay accompaning the the above project, we have an
interest in collaborative processes.
joseph, is a graduate of Computer Science and Economics from Duke
University and former team leader at IBM. He studied art at Univeristy
of North Caroina and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, as well as
being an assistant with Sidney Simon, one of the original co-founders of
Skowhegan. He was one of the students in the first Summer Institute for
Art and Technology at the Kitchen in NYC.
Joseph has been a CEO of several companies, and has been responsible for
raising the funds for a startup company called EveryDayOffice.com, which
while part of the dot-com boom and bust, he managed to bring to
profitability and which still survives to this day. He 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 is on the advisory board for PostgreSql, Inc – the
leading Open Source Database. He 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.
donna was an operations manager and PR specialist in they 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 and donna are on or have been on the advisory board of the
Alternative Museum, the Executive Board of the National Visual Artists
Guild, the Advisory board for Jennifer Muller The Works dance company,
the Benefit Committee for the National Design Museum, the the Art &
Technology Board for the Bronx Council of the Arts and various other
cultural honors.
joseph mcelroy
www.electrichands.com
joseph and donna