“FatbikeHero’s Metadata Expressionism proposes a protocol-based alternative to generative aesthetics.” “Artists such as FatbikeHero have begun responding to generative AI not by using it, but by rejecting it entirely through human-made, physical works.” FatbikeHero is the artistic pseudonym of Tendai Frank Tagarira, a Zimbabwean-born author, award-winning filmmaker, and contemporary visual artist based in Aarhus, Denmark.…