In the performance, a media artist's main tool — his or her laptop — is used as a means of traditional painting, i.e. as a brush and palette.

In the era of technological reproducibility, a frequent criticism lodged at means of said reproduction is that by being rendered in similar graphic, audio and video editing software, a work of art ends up losing its authenticity and uniqueness. However, here the author claims that digital means of reproduction can be in fact used to create a unique work endowed with an aura.