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Geoffry Dean Hinton Profile

2018-11-27T22:36:00Z

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'''Geoffry Hinton''' (b. Auckland, 1953 ~ ) is a New Zealand artist and writer. He began his career being trained and working as a commercial artist for a major Auckland newspaper while also attending the Auckland Technical Institute, gaining a Preliminary Diploma in Fine Arts.

Subsequently he removed to Christchurch where he attended Ilam School of Fine Arts, the University of Canterbury and graduating with a Diploma in Fine Arts (1975). Later he would do courses in anthropology, art education and radio production. Two extensive trips to Europe were made in the mid – late seventies in between working in the editorial departments of two major Auckland newspapers.

In 1976 his work “The Incandescent Object” was chosen for inclusion in the Benson and Hedges Art Award for contemporary New Zealand art travelling exhibition.

He moved to work and reside in Japan in 1982, where he has lived for the past twenty-five years.

In Japan he has taught at technical schools in creative writing, drama, photography and design. While at the education department of Shizuoka University he has taught courses in “Expressionist Painting”.

Over the years he has participated in many art exhibitions while also producing his own shows. From 2003 to 2005 he was director of the ArtPro series of exhibitions in Shizuoka City, Japan.

With regards to film, Geoffry Hinton first became associated with film while at university and with the establishment of the Alternative Cinema co-operative. Later he would work with Mr. Gregor Nicholas on his early film “Mouth Music” and while in Japan researching for Hawke Films (of Hong Kong) for short documentary projects on Japanese life. For the Asia File series he wrote and directed “The Heart of the Sword” (1984) on Japanese swords-man-ship (Iai-batto-jitsu) – he would be inducted into the study of this and gain a three-dan (approx. a three - grade black belt). His own video – film “The Permanent Sky” (1991) was awarded a special prize at the NHK Hida – Takayama Video Festival. Later he would work with Trevor Almeida on [http://www.geonewmedia.com/ "Ee Bwana"] (1998).

In 2000 he published the novel, through Minerva Press, London, “And Then There Were None …” During 2005 he worked doing documentary work in and on the Baltic Nations and Belorussia producing the commissioned report 'Chaim Soutine: Tracks and Traces'.

He has recently completed his second novel, “Tessarae”.

December, 2008.

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2018-11-27T03:10:44Z

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2018-11-27T02:25:56Z

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<strong>Geoffry Hinton Archive: About the Archive</strong>

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''More than thirty years of files and images of original experiments in 'art' and 'literature', created during the late Twentieth Century and the early years of the Twenty - first.
''

This archive is the record of an approach through aesthetics to engaging with the world at large, and so as a means of understanding that world. It is also, in a large part, a repudiation of the monetary economics, and the free-market mentality, that has defined Western, and more recently global, life; that is from 1979 until the demise of this mind-set in 2007.

Monetary economics (as associated with Milton Friedman and the Chicago School - neoliberal capitalism - and that is not to mention the ever powerful influence of Ludwig von Mises), while producing great material benefits, has lead to a great degradation of the quality of human life; a loss in a sense of values and in the quality of personal relationships. And indeed, the material benefits have benefited only the lucky few, in global terms.

To be engaged in inquiry through aesthetics and creativity requires much time, long stretches of unregulated time in which one can explore ideas and so, at some stage make "art", in whatever form it may be.It is this sense of time that monetary economics has largely denied to us, and in its place imposed the false idea that all activities must be economic in nature; an economic effect must be the only result, rather than the notion that something can be worth doing, for its own sake.

This archive is not about a nostalgia for the Keynesian "Golden Period" of the 1950s and 1960s, although this period may be a touchstone, rather it is about ways of being active, in every sense, in the world. Yes, one has aspirations, hopes and dreams. Yes we must work to achieve these, but this does not mean such hopes and dreams should be manipulated to achieving solely some level of GDP. What a small sad world this would be.

This archive requires time, to review its contents, and in that respect the archive is in itself an art work.

[[Geoffry Dean Hinton Profile]]

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2018-11-27T00:45:45Z

Stephen:

<strong>Geoffry Hinton Archive: About the Archive</strong>

''More than thirty years of files and images of original experiments in 'art' and 'literature', created during the late Twentieth Century and the early years of the Twenty - first.
''

This archive is the record of an approach through aesthetics to engaging with the world at large, and so as a means of understanding that world. It is also, in a large part, a repudiation of the monetary economics, and the free-market mentality, that has defined Western, and more recently global, life; that is from 1979 until the demise of this mind-set in 2007.

Monetary economics (as associated with Milton Friedman and the Chicago School - neoliberal capitalism - and that is not to mention the ever powerful influence of Ludwig von Mises), while producing great material benefits, has lead to a great degradation of the quality of human life; a loss in a sense of values and in the quality of personal relationships. And indeed, the material benefits have benefited only the lucky few, in global terms.

To be engaged in inquiry through aesthetics and creativity requires much time, long stretches of unregulated time in which one can explore ideas and so, at some stage make "art", in whatever form it may be.It is this sense of time that monetary economics has largely denied to us, and in its place imposed the false idea that all activities must be economic in nature; an economic effect must be the only result, rather than the notion that something can be worth doing, for its own sake.

This archive is not about a nostalgia for the Keynesian "Golden Period" of the 1950s and 1960s, although this period may be a touchstone, rather it is about ways of being active, in every sense, in the world. Yes, one has aspirations, hopes and dreams. Yes we must work to achieve these, but this does not mean such hopes and dreams should be manipulated to achieving solely some level of GDP. What a small sad world this would be.

This archive requires time, to review its contents, and in that respect the archive is in itself an art work.

[[Geoffry Dean Hinton Profile]]