Sendai Mediatheque

On May 3, 2011, sendai mediatheque launched “the center for remembering 3.11 (commonly known as recorder311)” in order to collectively face and think about the enormous devastation caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and to start walking a long path towards reconstruction. It is a platform by which citizens, experts, artists and staff are encouraged to collaborate in autonomous recordings and disseminations that demonstrate processes of recovery and reconstruction. With or without techniques or previous experience in videomaking, those who wish to pursue the same goal as recorder311's become contributors, recording “the disaster” as they experienced them, in videos, photos, soundtracks and texts. After their copyrights are appropriately dealt with, contributed records are organized and stored as a part of “Records of the Great East Japan Earthquake ̶ Citizens' Collaboration Archive,” to be utilized in variety of forms, such as being published online, made available in the library, exhibited and screened. Furthermore, opportunities to talk about “the disaster” with the recorded materials as a catalyst and /or subject for the contributors and the citizens are organized in collaboration with the contributors.