Amy is a writer, designer, cultural geographer, and live cinema artist who works with ideas of Anthropocene relationships. In her career in the GeoHumanities she has completed a PhD, a post-doc, and an ECR fellowship, and she has exhibited her work or run live events with organisations including the BBC, Somerset House, The Exploratorium San Francisco, Glastonbury Festival, Sheffield Doc Fest, the Wellcome Trust, the Horniman Museum, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Late Junction, Tate Modern, the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, the Horse Hospital, San Francisco Green Film Festival, the Natural History Museum, and Kew Gardens. She works frequently on the production of immersive and live cinema and exhibition events provoking and changing the public conversation around ideas of space, geography, and nature-cultures. She is also a cross-disciplinary lecturer, and teaches more publicly too, often developing unusual live sessions and field-trips for museums, festivals, and galleries.
Teaching
Amy has taught as a lecturer at multiple universities and in multiple disciplines. These include: Game Design, Art and Science, Audio-Visual Composition, Sound Design, English, Geography, Anthropology, Film Studies, Visual Cultures, Curating, and Media Production. She has taught modules at the following universities: Greenwich, Goldsmiths, UCL, Leeds, Royal Holloway, Central St Martins, Winchester School of Art, and London South Bank University. She also herself retrained in Information Experience Design at the RCA (MA, 2021-2023). She has now taken up a permanent role as Lecturer in Interactive Narrative Design at Exeter University.
Other
Amy runs the Live Cinema UK commissioned internationally touring show NATURE’S NICKELODEONS, which investigates the production of concepts of nature through social screening practices, from the proto-cinematic (live specimen projection) to contemporary nature doc re-scoring. This has been profiled by medium.com for “leading the field” in the international renaissance of live cinema as a progressive, investigative art form. She is an executive committee member for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, ran the White Rose project Hearts of Oak: Caring for British Woodlands, founded the cultural geography cinema PASSENGERFILMS, and has twice won the top annual award from the national organisation Cinema For All for innovative educational cinema programming.
Leverhulme Research
In 2019 Amy finished her Early Career Research fellowship considering the ethical, political, philosophical, and ecological implications of the question 'what is a forest?'. Ranging from the analysis of 17th century dictionaries to contemporary science fiction cinema, this research follows the long line of "semantic horror" in the woods, beginning with Dante: 'Ah me, how hard a thing it was to say / What was this forest savage'. This is not just about the conflicts and contradictions in the ways in which we have defined the forest, but also the ways in which it might be redefined, whether in speculative fiction or in contemporary cultural industries.
Contact
Email: amycutler1985@gmail.com
Twitter link: @amycutler1985