The book written by Manuel Felguérez and Mayer Sasson, *The Aesthetic Machine*, now reissued by the Institute of Aesthetic Research, transports us to that moment when the emergence of a new way of thinking, triggered by the invention of the computer, paved the way for another way of understanding art and influenced new artistic practices.

Felguérez conceived a project that would unite art with specific mathematical operations. He proposed to investigate the limits of combinatorics and the behavior of his artistic proposals, a process that would necessitate the use of computers predating personal devices.

Sasson, together with Felguérez, developed a model by synthesizing the components of their works, or what Sasson calls elements, to propose an “identification of systems.” Felguérez concluded that his geometric constructions could be reduced to 15 basic forms by studying their measurements.

The final part incorporates the more than one hundred line drawings that were conceived by the computer, and more than fifty examples of Felguérez's work made with these suggestions.