28: Jared Madere on Yeche Lange, VVV & the Solana Avant Scene's Impact

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Le Random is building a digital generative art institution that contextualizes and elevates generative art. We achieve this in two ways. First, we are assembling a historically encompassing, chain-agnostic generative art collection. Second, we publish content that enables the generative art community to understand its past, curate its present and celebrate its future. This includes an Editorials section, our book-length Generative Art Timeline and our multimedia content here and on YouTube. This is the home of Le Random's audio content.

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28: Jared Madere on Yeche Lange, VVV & the Solana Avant Scene's Impact—with Peter Bauman & Conrad House

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28: Jared Madere on Yeche Lange, VVV & the Solana Avant Scene's Impact—with Peter Bauman & Conrad House

In this episode, host Peter Bauman (Le Random's editor in chief) and Conrad House (Le Random's Collection Lead) sit down with artist/curator Jared Madere (Yeche Lange, 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.

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[00:00:03]: Introduction

[00:01:46]: On failure, transparency, and NFTs vs trad

[00:03:47]: Early career, DIY spaces, Bed Stuy Love Affair

[00:10:13]: Smithson’s influence and Glue Pour revelation

[00:14:10]: Building immersive digital galleries beyond white cubes

[00:17:24]: Post-COVID decentralization and culture sophistication

[00:19:04]: Collage, hyper-politicized media, and online literacy

[00:22:50]: Censorship, messaging, and bridging two worlds

[00:29:35]: Daria controversy, hate speech, and context

[00:34:52]: Gallery sterility vs messy online culture

[00:35:58]: Why Yeche shows Biscuit and Drifella

[00:37:36]: Nonfigurative shifts and VVV’s influence

[00:40:43]: NFTs as portraiture and PFP structures

[00:42:15]: Solana’s degenerate perversion vs ETH minimalism

[00:44:15]: Communicating significance of Drifella

[00:46:34]: Wretched Worm videos and hyper-online lives

[00:49:11]: Fragmented politics and culture controllers

[00:52:22]: Galleries closing, collectors shrinking, reshuffling

[00:56:16]: Explaining avant appeal beyond irony

[00:59:45]: Hashlips misuse and Drifella’s structural genius[01:05:30]: Galleries’ structural challenges and Yeche’s model

[01:11:25]: Ambassadors, press, and new audiences

[01:12:50]: Future collectors

[01:13:38]: Building cool enough to attract attention

[01:15:26]: Procedural art parallels in Drifella

[01:16:08]: Yeche origins with 1/1s[01:22:29]: Miles Peyton collaboration and bespoke builds

[01:24:15]: VVV’s purpose

[01:26:30]: Yeche’s curation vs VVV’s permissionless culture (how they support one another)

[01:28:46]: Crypto spending inversions and cultural demand

[01:31:41]: Conflict, digital natives, and online-born culture

[01:32:43]: Silicon Valley palates and palatable crypto art

[01:42:32]: New political lenses and classed perspectives

[01:44:20]: Art reflecting seismic cultural-technological shifts

[01:45:06]: Thanks and closing remarks