aly,willamina cutler-gear is a researcher, writer, composer, performer, and artist based in Glasgow. she builds locally hosted NLP and probabilistic computational systems for scheduling intermedial relationships within homemade datasets, writes texts, sings songs, tells stories, improvises, and makes noise, automatons, objects, interfaces, and spaces.

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her research focuses on Shetland before 1886, authoritative &or directive inscription in Europe from 789-1752, and certain bodily contexts deemed aberrant by certain empirical regimes.

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she applies humanistic techniques to software engineering to build machines for storying against epistemic flattening and empirically-led harm. with these machines she marionettes intermedial datum-objects using metadata as score and NLP as armature to stage intersemiotic counternarrative events. these are living systems that she often performs in, with, or from.

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she also makes things that have nothing to do with computers.

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she has a masters from The Glasgow School of Art and completed her undergraduate studies at Bennington College+Goddard College (Vermont, USA). her earliest memory is eating custard in da croft kitchen box window while her mother fed Emily, Moonie, and three other sheep down off the hill carrots out of the fridge.