Antonietta of Ontario, Canada (September 7, 2011)nnThis is an excerpt from:nnMatteo BittantinFlight CancellednConcrete Pressn276 pagesnEngli...
Antonietta of Ontario, Canada (September 7, 2011)nnThis is an excerpt from:nnMatteo BittantinFlight CancellednConcrete Pressn276 pagesnEnglishn2016nconcrete-press-orgnnFlight 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.nThese are horror stories.nThese are cautionary tales.nnMatteo 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.orgnnSoundtrack: an excerpt from Vitus Von Degen, "The Firenze Incident", 2008 (myspace.com/vitusvondegen)nnMatteo 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 Less
