remSmear

random access memories, Vector Festival 2025, InterAccess, Toronto, July 17-19 2025

remSmear is an experimental video game exploring notions of Hinduism’s samskara - imprints of memories as charged residue shaping one’s character and perception of reality.

Set in a dreamlike and ever shifting landscape, remSmear invites players to navigate a layered feedback loop of remembered, imagined, and emergent forms. These forms, both abstract and familiar, manifest echos of the self to transverses. Identity and environment co-construct each other through cycles of impression and erasure.

remSmear resists linear progression and resolution, proposing an evolving continuum where memory is recalled and reinterpreted through play. Stuck between evolution and preservation, players find themselves in perpetual transience. Grounded moments are fleeting as what feels solid dissolves with every step forward.