6. In the spring of 1991, I began YOU!, an interactively created data structure that simulated an intimate relationship between two people, by asking people to:

"Think about someone you might be in love with, are in love with or are no longer in love with. Write a *short* sentence addressed to that person. "

YOU! grew from 4 or 5 sentences in March 1991 to over 250 sentences in December 1991.

The final work contained sentences gathered online during REFLUX at the Sao Paulo Biennial as well as sentences gathered by email; on USENET, and at two events presented by Anna Couey: Cyber Encounters at New York University and TAPE at Dominican College in San Rafael.

All the sentences received were fed into a computer program that made judgments about the length and the content of the sentences and formatted them into YOU!. Using a database of possible words, the program placed short sentences that it "thought" were indicative of the first flowering of a relationship at the beginning. It considered all long sentences to be indicative of the fullcommunication that takes place in an established relationship and placed them in the middle. Short sentences that, based on another database of possible words, it thought indicated disintegration of the relationship were placed at the bottom of the structure. Several sentences activated the program's "Jesse Helms filter" and emerged somewhat differently from the way they were entered.