MORE CARNAGE FEATURED: MIKE PETRAKIS - “ARTERYFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”
Encountering Mike Petrakis’ Arteryficial Intelligence feels like touching the exposed nerve of our era—raw, buzzing, and uncomfortably sentient. His canvases don’t illustrate technology; they dissect it. They stretch it open like a body on the table. Acrylic, oil, marker, fragments of wood—materials collide like systems scrambling for dominance, like code rewriting itself mid-sentence.
The works pulse. They look engineered but wounded, as if someone tried to build a perfect machine and ended up revealing their own bloodstream instead. Petrakis refuses the clean futurism that tech culture worships. He gives us circuitry that sweats. He gives us intelligence that bleeds. He reminds us that the digital world, for all its disembodied ambition, is still shaped by human hands—trembling, terrified, addicted to progress, desperate for control.
This is why the work belongs in MORE CARNAGE. It rejects polish. It resists the fantasy of neutrality. It risks saying the quiet part out loud: that AI is not simply a tool but an event—a rupture—altering our species at the level of identity, ethics, and desire.
Petrakis asks what defines us, but the question cuts both ways. His paintings suggest that AI has already begun defining itself through us, absorbing our symbols, our anxieties, our obsessions. It is no longer a mirror. It is a collaborator. A rival. A child we’ve lost authority over.
Arteryficial Intelligence was selected because it doesn’t pretend to soothe. It provokes, destabilizes, and refuses any narrative that insists the human–machine interface will remain clean or kind. In Petrakis’ world, we are already fused—beautifully, dangerously, irreversibly.
ABOUT MIKE PETRAKIS
Mike Petrakis is a contemporary conceptual artist whose work blends cross-cultural symbolism, philosophical inquiry, and visual play. Known for embedding hidden cues and “mind traps” within his compositions, he creates art meant to be re-read rather than merely seen. His practice challenges the fixed meanings imposed by culture, technology, and ideology—recycling familiar symbols until they fracture and reveal their contradictions. With a background in graphic design and communication, Petrakis examines humanity’s shifting relationship to society, nature, and emerging technologies.
Website: https://mikepetrakis.com
Instagram: @mikepetrakis1
Art blog: https://mikepetrakis.blogspot.com/?m=1
“MORE CARNAGE” OUT NOW
If the future insists on rewriting us, we might as well meet it with our arteries open and our contradictions intact.
Step into the rest of MORE CARNAGE—where the human and the inhuman wrestle in the dark, and no one walks out unchanged.
View the entire collection via our interactive gallery experience on Asyra AI.
