FLIGHT CANCELLED: ANTONIETTA

Antonietta of Ontario, Canada (September 7, 2011)

This is an excerpt from:

Matteo Bittanti

Flight Cancelled

Concrete Press

276 pages

English

2016

concrete-press-org

Flight Cancelled is a collection of comments written by consumers who flew with Alitalia, Italy's main airline company, between 2003 and 2016. These travel experiences originally appeared online at My 3 Cents, Consumer Reports, and Yelp. They are reproduced in this book in reverse chronological order. They have not been edited, changed or sanitized in any way. These are stories of frustration and resistance. Loss and sorrow. Hope and resignation. Negligence and resilience.

These are horror stories.

These are cautionary tales.

Matteo Bittanti is an artist, writer, curator, publisher, translator, and scholar. His academic research focuses on the cultural, social, and theoretical aspects of emerging technologies, with an emphasis on their effects on communication, visual culture, and the arts. He is particularly interested in new media art, especially Game Art. Bittanti teaches Media Studies at IULM University, in Milan. He lives in San Francisco and Milan. www.mattscape.org

Soundtrack: an excerpt from Vitus Von Degen, "The Firenze Incident", 2008 (myspace.com/vitusvondegen)

Matteo Bittanti is an artist, writer, curator, publisher, translator, and scholar. His academic research focuses on the cultural, social, and theoretical aspects of emerging technologies, with an emphasis on their effects on communication, visual culture, and the arts. He is particularly interested in new media art, especially Game Art. Bittanti teaches Media Studies at IULM University, in Milan. He lives in San Francisco and Milan. www.mattscape.org