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

Science and technology

Artifact (error) In natural science and signal processing, an artifact or artefact is any error in the perception or representation of any information introduced by the involved equipment or technique(s). Statistics In ''statistics'', statistical artifacts are ...

, misleading or confusing alteration in data or observation, commonly in experimental science, resulting from flaws in technique or equipment **

Compression artifact A compression artifact (or artefact) is a noticeable distortion of media (including Image, images, Sound recording, audio, and video) caused by the application of lossy compression. Lossy data compression involves discarding some of the medi ...

, a loss of clarity caused by the data compression of an image, audio, or video **

Digital artifact Digital artifact in information science, is any undesired or unintended alteration in data introduced in a digital process by an involved technique and/or technology. Digital artifact can be of any content types including text, audio, video, ...

, any undesired alteration in data introduced during its digital processing **

Sonic artifact In sound and music production, sonic artifact, or simply artifact, refers to sonic material that is accidental or unwanted, resulting from the editing or manipulation of a sound. Types Because there are always technical restrictions in the way a ...

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

Visual artifact Visual artifacts (also artefacts) are anomalies apparent during visual representation as in digital graphics and other forms of imagery, especially photography and microscopy. In digital graphics * Image quality factors, different types of v ...

, anomalies during visual representation of digital graphics and imagery * In the

scrum Scrum may refer to: * Autozam Scrum, a microvan and pickup truck sold in Japan by Mazda * Line of scrimmage, line separating football teams before a play * Media scrum, an impromptu press conference, often held immediately outside an event such a ...

software project management framework, documentation used for managing the project

Archaeology

Artifact (archaeology) An artifact or artefact (British English) is a general term for an item made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest. In archaeology, the word has become a term of particular nua ...

, an object formed by humans, particularly one of interest to archaeologists *

Cultural artifact A cultural artifact, or cultural artefact (see American and British English spelling differences), is a term used in the social sciences, particularly anthropology, ethnology and sociology for anything created by humans which gives information ...

, 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) An artifact is one of many kinds of ''tangible'' by-products produced during the development of software. Some artifacts (e.g., use cases, class diagrams, requirements and design documents) help describe the function, architecture, and design of ...

, one of many kinds of tangible by-products produced during the development of software *

Artifact (enterprise architecture) Enterprise architecture artifacts, or EA artifacts, are separate documents constituting enterprise architecture.Winter, R. and Fischer, R. (2006), ''Essential Layers, Artifacts, and Dependencies of Enterprise Architecture'', In: Vallecillo, A. (ed ...

, a separate component of enterprise architecture *

Virtual artifact A virtual artifact (VA) is an immaterial object that exists in the human mind or in a digital environment, for example the Internet, intranet, virtual reality, cyberspace, etc. Background The term "virtual artifact" has been used in a variety of ...

, an object in a digital environment *

Artifact (UML) The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose visual modeling language that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system. UML provides a standard notation for many types of diagrams which can be roughly ...

, a term in the Unified Modeling Language *

Artifact (app) Artifact was a personalized social news aggregator app that uses recommender systems to suggest articles. Launched in January 2023 by Nokto, Inc., a company founded by co-founders of Instagram Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the app is available ...

, 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) The Artifacts was an East Coast hip hop music, hip hop group consisting of El Da Sensei, Tame One and later, DJ Kaos. They hail from Newark, New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, and made underground hip hop, underground music that paid homage to the ...

, 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 In electronic music, waveshaping is a type of distortion synthesis in which complex spectra are produced from simple tones by altering the shape of the waveforms. Uses Waveshapers are used mainly by electronic musicians to achieve an extr ...

* "Artefact", a song by Phoenix from ''

Alpha Zulu ''Alpha Zulu'' is the seventh studio album by French indie pop band Phoenix, released on 4 November 2022 through Loyauté and Glassnote Records. Self-produced by the band, it is their first album since 2017's ''Ti Amo''. The singles "Identical", ...

'', 2022 * "Artifact", a lyric in "Hits Different" from

Midnights ''Midnights'' is the tenth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on October 21, 2022, by Republic Records. She conceived ''Midnights'' as a concept album about nocturnal ruminations inspired by her sleepl ...

by Taylor Swift, 2022 * ''Artefact #VII'', a type of

Theremin The theremin (; originally known as the ætherphone, etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist). It is named aft ...

Other media

* ''Artifact'' (ballet), 1984 ballet by William Forsythe * ''Artifact'', a 1985 science fiction novel by

Gregory Benford Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is professor emeritus at the department of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a contributing editor of ''Reason ...

Other uses

Artifact Creek Artifact Creek is a tributary of Stewbomb Creek and part of the Stikine River watershed in northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. It flows generally southeast for roughly Lengths and distances measured using BCGNIS coordinat ...

, 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) In educational psychology, a learning artifact (or educational artifact) is an object created by students during the course of instruction. To be considered an artifact, an object needs to be lasting, durable, public, and materially present. Under ...

, an object created by students during the course of instruction * A

relic In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past. It usually consists of the physical remains or personal effects of a saint or other person preserved for the purpose of veneration as a tangible memorial. Reli ...

, an object left behind by a prophet or other important religious figure