Produced by Judy Malloy in 1991, YOU! is an interactively created, computer program generated data structure that simulates an intimate relationship between two people.

Participants were asked 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."

Contributions were immediately sorted by a computer program, written in BASIC -- YOU.BAS c 1991 Judy Malloy - for IBM compatible computers -- which -- based on a database -- made judgments about the length and the content of the sentences and inserted them into an array. The program placed short sentences that it considered indicative of the first flowering of a relationship at the beginning. It considered all long sentences to be indicative of the full communication that takes place in an established relationship and placed them in the middle. Short sentences that considered indicated disintegration of the relationship were placed at the bottom of the structure. The program also contained a Jesse Helms filter which generated word substitutions.

After each new entry, the program printed the array on the computer screen or on continuous feed paper with the new sentence included. If the author of the new sentence chose to be credited, the computer also added their name to the array.

YOU! was created in 1991 on usenet; at T.A.P.E. at Dominican College; at the Sao Paulo Biennial; and at the New York University Interactive Telecommunications Program. A printout of YOU! was exhibited at the exhibition Internet at A's in New York City in 1995. And You! is included on the CD accompanying The New Media Reader, edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, MIT Press, 2003.

The creation of the work is discussed in:
Judy Malloy, YOU!, Art Com Magazine 11(6) July 1991. (entire issue); and Judy Malloy, "YOU!, A Collaborative Narrative Data Structure" In: Taproots (special issue on Art and Technology. Robert Drake, ed.) Cleveland, OH, 1992.

Thanks to Anna Couey, Carl Loeffler, and Artur Matuck, who curated the exhibitions at the Sao Paulo Biennial (Artur Matuck, REFLUX) and New York University Interactive Telecommunications Program (Anna Couey, Carl Loeffler, Art Com Electronic Network)