BRAIN Initiative, the Human Brain Project, and other major institutes and labs. His first feature documentary, Crude Independence, premiered at SXSW in 2009. In addition to filmmaking, Hutton also writes and curates shows about art and neuroscience. As the founder of the website The Beautiful Brain, he curated the group art show Subjective Resonance Imaging at the 2013 Human Brain Mapping summit, was a featured speaker at the 2013 Association of Neuroaesthetics Symposium at the Vennice Biennale, and co-curated the 2014 Impakt Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands.