KATE BUTLER:

A writer and DJ in Dublin since the 1990s, Kate Butler has a monthly show on Dublin Digital Radio (ddr), inspired by rave culture, community clubbing and the disorientating futurism of dance music.  

Kate's work is concerned with societal barriers to technology for creative purposes, particularly for women and other marginalised groups. Since 2017, she has been developing Atomic, a programme which teaches girls and marginalised children how to DJ and gives young people access to broadcasting on ddr. 

 Working across the visual arts, print and film, in 2021 Kate was one of the selectors of the Woman in the Machine exhibition at Carlow's VISUAL gallery. That same year, she co-curated Utopia: The Chill Out Room as a Radical Space in the National Concert Hall. In September 2022, she co-programmed, with Ashley Chadamoyo Makombe, For What You Dream Of: Talks, Dance Rhythms and Afro-future Imaginaries, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. In 2024, she curated and presented Wanna See You Werk, an event about access to DJ and dance culture, for Galway Arts Centre’s Culture Night.

 In January 2022, Kate conceived and produced a short film, Sonic Cyborgs: FemTech ‘n theStudio, directed by Eavan Aiken. That year, Kate also helped to develop Viva Dean’s Synthesize_Her_, a workshop that teaches analogue synthesis / noise making technology to children, women and non-binary people. 

 In 2023, Kate co-edited, with Roo Honeychild, Mesh Net, a publication about social dance in Ireland. Kate is currently producing a radio documentary series for 2FM, Control, about women’s work in the recording studio.    

April 2025