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In this episode, host Peter Bauman (Monk Antony, Le Random's editor in chief) and Conrad House (Nemo Cake, former Collection Lead at Le Random) sit down with artist/curator Jared Madere (lerandom.art/subjects/jared-madere) (Yeche Lange, VVV (lerandom.art/subjects/vvv)) to trace his early Whitney break and the rise of the Solana avant scene. They unpack on-chain transparency, Drifella’s meme-native collage, and how new online collectors are shifting power and reimagining culture in real time.
Also in this episode: Evil Biscuit (lerandom.art/subjects/evil-biscuit), Harm van den Dorpel (lerandom.art/subjects/harm-van-den-dorpel), Simon Denny (lerandom.art/subjects/simon-denny), Marcel Duchamp (lerandom.art/subjects/marcel-duchamp), Super Metal Bosch (lerandom.art/subjects/super-metal-bosch), Jenny Holzer (lerandom.art/subjects/jenny-holzer), Little Swag World (lerandom.art/subjects/little-swag-world)
Read next: Jared Madere and fairybaby on VVV and the World as Material (lerandom.art/editorial/jared-madere-and-fairyb…)
Listen next: Ep. 27, Reviewing Digital Art in 3Q 2025 (lerandom.art/episodes/reviewing-digital-art-in…), Ep. 38, 2025 Art in Review with thefunnyguys, Conrad House & Peter Bauman (lerandom.art/episodes/2025-art-in-review-with-…)
Chapters 📖:
Introduction
Why talk about failure and transparency?
How did Jared's career begin?
What did Smithson's Glue Pour reveal?
Can digital galleries beat white cubes?
How did Covid decentralize culture?
What does collage say about media?
How do you bridge two worlds?
What was the Darja Bajagić controversy?
Is the gallery too sterile?
Why show Biscuit and Drifella?
What has VVV changed?
Are NFTs a form of portraiture?
Solana perversion or ETH minimalism?
Why does Drifella matter?
What are the Wretched Worm videos?
Who controls culture now?
Why are galleries closing?
What's the appeal beyond irony?
What's Drifella's structural genius?
What's wrong with the gallery model?
How do ambassadors build new audiences?
Who are the future collectors?
How do you build something cool enough?
Is Drifella procedural art?
How did Yeche start with 1/1s?
How did the Miles Peyton build work?
What is VVV for?
How do Yeche and VVV help each other?
Why is crypto spending inverted?
What does online-born culture want?
Why is this palatable to Silicon Valley?
What's politically relevant now?
What makes great art in these shifts?
