The 40th birthday of Radio Študent was a nice opportunity to put to good use some of the non-conventional usages of radio as media - and it was exactly Radio Student Ljubljana that was on the forefront of experimentation in the last 40 (XL) years. Though always inspired by the individualistic initiatives of various generations of collaborators of Radio Student - never fully aware of each other - they successfully added some difference to the ever-present "sameness". They crossed the borders of conventional media - and then moved onwards to the experimental artistic expressions. Still, the XL Experiment at Kapelica Gallery will not deal with historic timelines.

After 40 years it is time to put forward some practical actions, some research and also some critical discourse and views on advanced (and retroactive!) approaches - along with the use of inter(active/net)multimedia - usually in artistic ways. Sacred wish is to locate the meaningful focuses and combine it with the necessary technology - to get the natural approach to contemporary radio media - as an intermultimedia platform. So we broadcast live, archive on the fly, resample it as we like - and rebroadcast again - as simple and fast as possible. The basic principle of radio has always been the shortest time from production to performing/publishing.

The intermultimedia platform in Kapelica can be seen as a »sono-broadcasting and sono-recording radio-cinematographic station (remote recording and transmitted sound and vision)«, that was proposed by Tziga Vertov at the First all-Soviet conference for the sound motion film, about eighty years ago. The question, that here we only ask, is: Why was Vertov's proposal - though even at that time technologically possible - not accepted until this date? And, of course, here we enter the domain of ideology, economy, politics and finances; and consequently: into the domains of open source code, DIY, hacking, hackivism (hacking activism) and the creative commons principles of (self-)organisation - because this principles are always political - a call to change the code and the rules, when they block any action.