Artifact

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

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