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
  • Sonic artifact, in sound and music production, sonic material that is accidental or unwanted, resulting from the editing of another sound.
  • 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
  • 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

Cultural studies

  • Cultural artifact, in the social sciences, anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of its creator and users

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 (Dungeons & Dragons), the most powerful type of magic item in Dungeons & Dragons
  • Artifact (Magic: The Gathering), a card type in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
  • Artifact (video game), a 2018 digital collectible card game by Valve

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
  • Artefact #VII, a type of Theremin

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