Off Matter is the independent art practice of ronnie pence exploring at the intersections of semiotics, queer history, data & the world wide web through zines, diy publications & objects of art.

Off Matter is the independent art practice of ronnie pence, tracing the radical histories that unfold at the crossroads of semiotics, queer identity, data, and the World Wide Web. Through zines, DIY publications, and art objects, I investigate the fragments of a digital culture that once felt deeply personal, and defiantly queer.

I believe in the web before: the handmade, the glitched, the personal archive that stretched beyond the body. A web of bright, blurred pixels where homepages were altars of the self, where desire and deviance found communion, and where the only algorithm was of your own making.

Off Matter is a vessel for the preservation and retelling of queer digital histories, from the pioneering days of Minitel and Usenet to the early expanses of the World Wide Web. I honor the trailblazing digital queers and the spaces they forged in our cyberspace.