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The theme of WRO 99 is, probably for the last time, tape as a medium for conveying works of art. WRO 99 is dedicated to the unique properties of tape as a de facto standard of audio visual media of the 20th century, both as a tool for avant garde art and as a carrier of the world's iconosphere. As the century draws to a close, we explore the declining role of tape (film, audio, and video) as the primary vehicle for artistic creation and mass communication; a vehicle which has gradually been replaced at the end of the 90's by development of computers and powerful new digital media enviroment. Ten years after the first edition of the WRO Festival as first in Poland great manifestation of electronic art and culture, of multidimensional creative space found in an artistic experiment in new media; WRO 99: The Power, Aesthetics and History of Tape, one the most wide spread communication medium but in front of our eyes becoming technologically and aesthetically obsolete - the medium of line, the medium of wave...