At this nature-oriented museum, Serra’s sculptures are machinelike hulks in the garden.

Every facet of his performances was similarly somber and machinelike.

Ray, an online poker whiz turned live player who exists “in pursuit of a perfect machinelike neutrality toward outcomes,” and whose tedious sections read as if they were generated by A.I.

He would help symbolize the almost machinelike efficiency of the Yankees in the mid-20th century, when only twice between Ford’s rookie year and 1964 did they fail to make the postseason.

The figures are abstracted, almost machinelike, and cement-colored, positioned against a sapphire sea and an equally intense sky.