Every work is a layer.
Publish a root artifact, or branch from one that's already here. Every layer declares its provenance, its parent, and its steward circle before it enters the network.
Five declarations.
Nothing about a layer is inferred after the fact. Every dimension is declared at publish time and signed onto the Tenzro ledger.
Declare who made it
Attested by a recognized cultural institution. Provenance chain available.
Authored directly by the contributor, without AI involvement.
Authored by a human with AI acting as a tool. Process documented.
Generated by an AI system under the contributor's direction. Source model cited.
Declare the relationship
The original cultural work this lineage descends from.
Essay, annotation, or oral history providing context.
A new creative work that descends from and responds to the parent.
Physical or digital restoration analysis and documentation.
Scholarly or AI-assisted pattern analysis and cross-references.
Translation, medium shift, or contemporary response.
Choose a home.
Every layer joins at least one circle. Stewards are notified on publish and can review provenance before it surfaces in the circle feed.
Edo-period Japanese woodblock printing, its workshop traditions, and their contemporary descendants.
Secular court painting of the 15th–18th c. — illumination, portraiture, festival books, atelier attribution.
Benin, Ife, and Yoruba metalwork. Provenance research, restitution discourse, and reinterpretation.
Pre-Columbian and contemporary weaving from the Andes. Knots, color systems, and living practice.
Early web mythologies, net-art, and the oral/iterative grammars of digital folk culture.
Medieval and early-modern illuminated manuscripts, their ateliers, and contemporary response.
Recordings, compositions, and performance practice across traditions — classical, folk, and early sound documents.
Living intangible heritage — oral epics, ritual practice, craft lineages inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List. Records currently sourced via Wikidata (property P5030) pending a direct UNESCO integration in Phase 3.
A global-balance pool: cultural artifacts sourced through Wikidata queries to widen geographic coverage beyond the platform's initial Western-institution set.
Open holdings federated through Japan Search (jpsearch.go.jp) — early-modern printed books, manuscripts, and visual documents from the National Diet Library and partner institutions.
European and American paintings from the 15th c. onward — Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Monet, Vermeer, and the museum collections that steward them. CC0 open-access records from the Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, the Met, and Wikidata.
Quranic manuscripts, Arabic scripts, and the long tradition of pen-work as sacred art. Court manuscripts, Maghribi and Kufic hands, folios from the Mamluk, Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal atelier traditions.
A pool spanning ancient Mesopotamia, Persia, the Levant, Arabia, and North Africa — tablets, coins, ceramics, architecture, textiles. Sourced through Met Ancient Near Eastern Art, Islamic Art, and Wikidata.
Tang through Qing painting, calligraphy, ceramics, jade, and bronzes. Scholar-official traditions, literati painting, and the court ateliers.
The Quran itself (revealed in Arabic, 7th c., public domain) alongside the manuscript, calligraphic, and recitation traditions that transmit it. Text sourced through the Tanzil project; manuscript surrogates via the Met and Wikidata.
Contribution is invitation-only for the first cohort.
We're onboarding institutions, researchers, and practitioners in waves so that the first lineages are stewarded well. Apply to join the next cohort.