The Missing Continent
2021 – ongoing
VR panorama, axonometric plan
Conceived by the parafictional character Caleb Mitchell in collaboration with a team of architectural designers, The Missing Continent is an ongoing series of 3D-modeled VR panoramas and axonometric plans that reconstruct sites of corruption, violence, and malpractice from the fragmentary sleuthing and speculations of conspiracists like Mitchell.
The Missing Continent (USNS Mercy)
2021
ref: the hospital ship the USNS Mercy, which gained public attention in 2020 after a train engineer in Los Angeles attempted to crash a train into it, citing suspicion of nefarious government activity on the ship
The Missing Continent (VECTOR)
2021
ref: the Russian State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology (VECTOR), which is one of two remaining repositories of the variola virus in the world and which suffered an explosion in 2019
The Missing Continent (Comet Ping Pong)
2022
ref: the D.C.-based pizzeria Comet Ping Pong, which was stormed in 2016 by a shooter motivated by the claims of ‘Pizzagate’ and in search of the restaurant’s basement, which he believed housed a child sex-trafficking ring
The Missing Continent (Dealey Plaza)
2022
ref: Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, where JFK was assassinated in 1963 and where hundreds of QAnon conspiracists gathered in 2021 to await the return of JFK and JFK Jr.
