Artifact Explained

Artifact (American English) or artefact (British English) may refer to:

Science and technology

• Artifact (error), misleading or confusing alteration in data or observation, commonly in experimental science, resulting from flaws in technique or equipment
  • Compression artifact, a loss of clarity caused by the data compression of an image, audio, or video
  • Digital artifact, any undesired alteration in data introduced during its digital processing
  • Visual artifact, anomalies during visual representation of digital graphics and imagery
• In the scrum software project management framework, documentation used for managing the project

Archaeology

• Artifact (archaeology), an object formed by humans, particularly one of interest to archaeologists
• Cultural artifact, in the social sciences, anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of its creator and users
• The Artefact (journal), published annually by the Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria

Computing

• Artifact (software development), one of many kinds of tangible by-products produced during the development of software
• Artifact (enterprise architecture), a separate component of enterprise architecture
• Virtual artifact, an object in a digital environment
• Artifact (UML), a term in the Unified Modeling Language
• Artifact (app), a news recommendation app for iOS and Android

Arts and media

Film and television

• Artifact (film), a 2012 documentary film directed by Jared Leto under the pseudonym of Bartholomew Cubbins
• Artifacts (film), a 2007 horror film
• The Artifact (Eureka), a fictional object appearing in the TV series Eureka

Games

• Artifact (video game), a 2018 digital collectible card game by Valve
• Artifact (Magic: The Gathering), a card type in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering

Music

• Artifacts (group), a hip-hop duo from New Jersey
• Artifact (album), a 2002 album by The Electric Prunes
• Artifacts (Beirut album), 2022
• Artifacts (Nicole Mitchell album), 2015
• Artifacts (Steve Roach album), 1994
• Artifact, a 2019 album by Swedish electronic musician Waveshaper
• "Artefact", a song by Phoenix from Alpha Zulu, 2022
• "Artifact", a lyric in "Hits Different" from Midnights by Taylor Swift, 2022

Other media

• Artifact (ballet), 1984 ballet by William Forsythe
• Artifact, a 1985 science fiction novel by Gregory Benford

Other uses

• Artifact Creek, a stream in British Columbia, Canada
• Artifact Ridge, a mountain ridge in British Columbia, Canada
• Artifacting, a technique used on some older computers to generate color in monochrome modes by exploiting artifacts of analog television systems
• Learning artifact (education), an object created by students during the course of instruction
• A relic, an object left behind by a prophet or other important religious figure

See also

• • • • • Object (disambiguation)
• Artiifact, a 2016 album by South African hip hop record producer Anatii
• Artifakt, a compilation album by Better Than Ezra
• Artifakts (bc), a 1998 album by Plastikman
• Different spellings and connotations for artefact or artifact
• Magic item, in fantasy, any object that has magical powers so powerful that it cannot be duplicated or destroyed by ordinary means