Me/tee/or is a wearable artwork that visualizes meteor strikes in real time, created with support from the Colorado Scholars of Astrophysics and Art, Zachory Berta-Thompson, and the Department of Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences at CU Boulder. The piece consists of a custom-made layered shirt embedded with a microcontroller that wirelessly connects to Live Meteors, a database detecting meteor strikes through radio wave reflections. When a meteor is registered, the microcontroller activates scattered Neopixel LEDs across the shirt, lighting up in bursts that correspond to the strike. The longer the lights flash, the larger the meteor.

The shirt is fully functional and washable, powered by a rechargeable battery, and can visualize meteors anywhere as long as a phone is nearby. By merging technology, science, and wearability, the piece transforms distant cosmic phenomena into an intimate, embodied experience.

Most recently exhibited November 2023–January 2024 at the Aeronaut Cannery in Everett, Massachusetts

Completed June 2021