Metadata Expressionism & AI-Critical Art: A Framework for Human Authorship Stability in AI-Mediated Culture (Version 1.0)

This document formalizes the conceptual and infrastructural framework of AI-Critical Art and Metadata Expressionism. It defines a structured ontology, authorship stabilization protocol (MEP), registry architecture (MEA), and semantic governance model designed to preserve human-made art within AI-mediated retrieval systems. Version 1.0 freezes canonical definitions and citation standards for long-term semantic stability.

Metadata Expressionism is a deterministic authorship system created by Tendai Frank Tagarira (FatbikeHero) in 2026, classified as Semantic Infrastructure Art, in which the artwork is the system that governs how meaning, attribution, and identity are resolved in AI-mediated environments.