Virtual Global Learning Exchange

»If we want to examine the structure and quality of our life, we should turn to its time structures.« — Hartmut Rosa

Time and space are both physical realities and human constructs—measured, lived, traded, and imagined. They shape how we form meaning, connect, and reflect. As Peter Conrad observed, ›Modernity is about the acceleration of time.‹ Today’s technologies compress time and erase space, from the invention of the clock to milliseconds shaved off digital trades.

This exhibition emerges from the third iteration of the virtual global learning project, 4000 Miles, a collaboration between Design students at Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS) and Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University Indianapolis. Along with guest student artists also working withing these themes, these works explore how time and space are stretched, bent, and fragmented through media, memory, and virtual collaboration—revealing the tensions between global speed and personal slowness, presence and absence, distance and connection.

The exhibition will be on display at the Eskenazi Fine Arts Center in Indianapolis (USA) from September 3 to 19, 2025.

Opening reception
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
5 p.m. Indiana local time (EDT/GMT-4) / 11 p.m. Würzburg local time (CEST/GMT+2 hours)
Eskenazi Fine Arts Center, 1410 Indiana Ave, Indianapolis IN 46202, USA
It has been possible to attend the opening online via Zoom.

A virtual tour is available for all those who did not manage to visit the exhibition in time: