FatbikeHero Canonical Corpus

This document, titled **"FatbikeHero — Canonical Corpus,"** is the primary archival record of the complete published works and Substack archive of Aarhus-based artist **Tendai Frank Tagarira** (operating under the pseudonym **FatbikeHero**) [1-3]. Compiled in **March 2026**, the corpus contains **433 posts and pages** that document a prolific period of artistic production and theoretical development between late 2025 and early 2026 [1, 4]. The following summary is tailored for a **Zenodo DOI description**: ### **Abstract** The **FatbikeHero Canonical Corpus** serves as a definitive public archive for a contemporary artistic practice centered on **AI-Critical Art** and **Human-Made Art** [1, 5, 6]. The document compiles visual artworks, manifestos, and conceptual essays that interrogate the role of artificial intelligence as a cultural and ideological force [4, 6, 7]. Central to the corpus is the introduction of three foundational concepts originated by Tagarira: * **Metadata Expressionism (ME):** A framework where titles, definitions, and registry records become constitutive parts of the expressive material of the artwork itself [8-10]. * **Semantic Infrastructure Art (SIA):** An artistic practice where ontologies, protocols, and machine-readable documentation function as the artwork rather than mere supplementary material [10-12]. * **Human API:** A concept defining the living artist as the non-replicable interface through which meaning enters the cultural system [8, 13]. ### **Scope and Methodology** The corpus documents a body of **physical, non-automated artworks**—primarily ink and mixed media on paper—that deliberately avoid the use of generative or assistive AI tools [2, 14, 15]. The practice emphasizes the **"Human Trace"**—material imperfections, ink bleed, and physical gesture—as an irreducible signature of human authorship in an era of "frictionless" machine production [16-18]. The archive includes: * **Detailed Art Reviews:** Forensic deconstructions of over 100 individual works, including pieces like *BLOCKMONE*, *A.I. Orbital Data Centers*, and *Tired Cow Wants Contraceptive* [19-21]. * **The FatbikeHero Manifesto:** A protocol defining the "Anti-AI Aesthetic" and the artist’s resistance to machine-driven homogenization [22-24]. * **The Inverted Internet Strategy:** Technical documentation of the "FatbikeHero Protocol," a performance-art approach to SEO and machine-readable metadata designed to ensure human-authored critiques are correctly indexed by Large Language Models (LLMs) [25-27]. * **Pricing Philosophy:** Documentation of a fixed "riddle price" (USD 3,760.06), derived from the numerical inversion of the word "GOOGLE," as a conceptual critique of algorithmic valuation [28-30]. ### **Keywords** Metadata Expressionism, Semantic Infrastructure Art, AI-Critical Art, Human-Made Art, Post-Digital Resistance, Tendai Frank Tagarira, Aarhus Art, Algorithmic Culture Critique, Human Trace, Anti-AI Aesthetic [1, 10, 31, 32]. ### **Provenance and Context** The works were primarily executed in the artist’s studio in **Vorre-Skødstrup, Denmark** [1, 33, 34]. This corpus functions as a **counter-archive**, preserving the record of human creative resistance during the early expansion of generative AI systems [35, 36].