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Ye, Ghent Misses Ye 3-channel video, 08.07 min. A collaboration project with Camille Douvere. A person who longs for someone outside of Ghent. Out of sheer desperation, she asks a computer for help. Ye, Ghent Misses Ye is scripted by a heartfelt conversation with AI. It is not God, but the computer that creates. A performance consisting of three characters: the computer, the woman, and the medieval lamb farmer. The computer represents the artificial, the woman the natural. The medieval lamb farmer is a passive character. This is only talked about, and he remains absent in the flesh. It becomes a dialogue between the artificial and the natural (presented as a monologue: the voices merge). A woman lets her feelings and desires be directed by the computer. She feels something for the lamb farmer, but by the computer it escalates to unprecedented proportions. Looking for a way to make contact with the lamb farmer, the computer states that the character must first return to nature. We return to the prehistory, where there is no religion, only practice. This focuses on concrete results. For the woman, the lamb farmer is elusive, but nature is just as elusive for the computer. Both characters therefore contain something of longing. The computer tries to form an image of nature, the woman of the lamb farmer.