Space Time Layering

Space Time Layering
An Augmented Reality Installation on Memory, Landscape, and Women’s Voices

In Space Time Layering, artists Annegret Bleisteiner and Jeroen Werner explore the poetic potential of Augmented Reality to intertwine past and present. The site-specific work connects physical space with digital drawings, text fragments, sound, and movement—revealed through an AR app that overlays the real landscape with virtual layers.

Spanning the grounds with drawn bands and lines, the installation creates a dialogue between memory, visibility, and historical presence. Through smartphones or tablets, visitors experience how analogue and digital spaces merge into a performative, multidimensional narrative.

Central to the work are the voices of women writers and artists who challenged conventions in their time: George Sand, Bettina von Arnim, Elisabeth Maria Post, Minna Kruseman, Cornelia Scheffer, and Judith Leyster. Their reflections on autonomy, imagination, and social roles re-emerge in fragments—floating across meadows, between trees, or anchored in architectural features.
By layering text and drawing into space, Space Time Layering becomes both a walkable memory landscape and a speculative conversation across time.

The project will be shown in a group exhibition in Amsterdam, with further development of the app and immersive installation components, programmer Frank Groh.

Images:
Left: Annegret Bleisteiner. 
Right: Jeroen Werner, Technique: AI,From Language to Image