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An artefact (too artifact) refers to any object or process resulting from human activity which represents items from either a past. A specific meanings of the word are several:

An artifact in archaeology An artefact of observation An artefact of fantasy The cultural artifact (from sociology) An artefact within software engineering The compression artifact in computer science, resulting from either lossy data compression Artefact occurs as title of an online multiplayer game

William Forsythe's Sounds of Science
Review of Artifact with critique of the use of text and stage acting in a dance. As much a commentary on modern ballet in general as an examination of this work. By Paul Ben-Itzak for The Dance Insider.

Artifact
Guardian Unlimited review of a Dutch National Ballet performance at the 1999 Edinburgh Festival.