He characterized himself as a person of constant experimentation, as he believed constant evolution distinguishes the artist from the artisan, who repeats styles and forms. He was against the "Neo-nationalism" movement in Mexican art as he did not like "neo" anything, since it means repeating something that has been done before. However, changes in his work gradual, rather than leaping from one style to another. His work from the mid-1970s involves the use of computing processes, the subject continues to be geometrical shapes. The idea of the use of computers evolved from the repetition of forms, those findings were published by Felguerez in his book "El espacio multiple" (The Multiple Space).Debroise, Olivier. The Age of Discrepancies. Turner-UNAM, 2006. In 1975 after obtaining a scholarship from the Guggenheim Foundation which allowed him to do research at Harvard University, he started experimenting with computersFuentes Mata, Irma. Creación y Expresión en el Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguerez. CONACULTA. 20010. aided by the computer science engineer Mayer Sassonhttp://www.revistadelauniversidad.unam.mx/ojs_rum/files/journals/1/articles/11563/public/11563-16961-1-PB.pdf with whom he published the book "La Máquina Estética" (The Aesthetic Machine). Felguérez is considered to have been a pioneer of the digital art in Mexico. His emphasis on the new as well as his negative experience with establishment artists of the 1940s caused him to state emphatically that he did not want to create another school of art in Mexico.
