Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 10: On-Chain Era (2020s)
2025
Drifella III by Evil Biscuit

If 2025 marked wider acceptance of the avant NFT scene, its culminating statement was Drifella III, Evil Biscuit’s hyper-“schizocollage” project. The work was some of the strongest of the year, to me. So much so that I wrote over 4,000 words about it.
The work from VVV, the digital arm of Galerie Yeche Lange, stands as a high point of art, the Internet and our daily lives in 2025, spanning across 1,333 digital two-dimensional rooms, each presenting a dense triptych. The work turns the derided PFP format into a room-scale composition: painterly layers, meme language, scene lore, and pop-culture fragments, all bursting into an unruly record of the 2020s.
What’s striking about the work is the artist’s comprehension of culture, as Jared Madere put it to me, which is on full display with Drifella III. Built from thousands of traits and references—from painting history to Pokémon to crypto subculture to music to film—Drifella III rewards slow looking. Its sometimes jarring shifts between humor, cringe and the genuine affect while asking what “real” means anyways inside networked identity and masks.
It’s art speaking directly to our Internet-fueled times instead of shying away—even from its unsavory elements—and executed with brilliance by Biscuit.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Movements
NFT Art, post internet
Filed under
- Ideas
- collage, crypto culture, identity, memes, painting, schizocollage
- Technologies
- Internet, NFTs, PFP
- People
- Evil Biscuit, Jared Madere
- Works
- Drifella, Drifella III, Pokémon
- Organisations
- Galerie Yeche Lange, VVV
Echoes across time
- 2007 · VVEBCAM by Petra Cortright
- 1987 · CompuServe Introduces the GIF
- 1973 · France Hosts International Computer Art Events
Le Random editorials
- Drifella III: Room for Complexity, Peter Bauman, October 9, 2025
- Evil Biscuit on card nft 2, Destruction & Rebirth, Peter Bauman, June 8, 2026
- Parker Ito and Evil Biscuit on Possessed Spirits, Peter Bauman, October 31, 2025
- Seams and Synthesis: Schizocollage and AI Aesthetics, Brian Droitcour, February 2, 2026
Le Random podcast
- Jared Madere on Yeche Lange, VVV & the Solana Avant Scene's Impact—with Peter Bauman & Conrad House — listen with transcript on Le Random (10 Oct 2025, 105 min). Featuring Jared Madere. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Reviewing Digital Art in 3Q 2025 — listen with transcript on Le Random (28 Sep 2025, 83 min). Transcript mentions Drifella. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- 2025 Art in Review with thefunnyguys, Conrad House & Peter Bauman — listen with transcript on Le Random (22 Dec 2025, 98 min). Transcript mentions Drifella. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 10—On-Chain Era (2020s) with Erick Calderon, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Itzel Yard & Rafael Lozano-Hemmer — listen with transcript on Le Random (02 Sep 2024, 63 min). Chapter 10’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify