I concur with Christian's definition, however I would expand it:
All artifacts are objects. All objects are not artifacts.
Quoting "Dr. Christian Müller-Straten" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dear Chris,
>
> we here in good old Europe use the term "object" generally in contrary to
> "subject". So museologically spoken, do we have in museum two
> "subject-object-relations": The one of the museum activists and the one of
> the visitor. "Object" is also used to characterize any materialized matter,
> like a work of art, a piece of stone, a leaf, a stuffed bird in contrary to
> beliefs, fictions, theories etc. A dance is not an object. But the photograph
> of a dancer is. So not all objects are museum objects, but all museum objects
> are objects. Museologically one of the main questions had been: What make an
> object a museum object? It would lead me too far to go deeper in details but
> this question is important.
> An artefact is something on a different level. Coming from the Latin word
> artefactum (i.e. artificially made) it is coined to objects which are made by
> men. Animals and plants are not producing "artefacts" they may us tools to
> open a nut, but the nut is not an artefact. Also birds' nests are not
> artefacts, as "artificially" they look like. The respective term is
> "naturafact" (made by nature"). The term artefact is also used in some
> natural sciences in order to characterize artificial distortions in a
> picture, f.e. IN an infrared camera picture by external influences.
>
> During my last 58 years I never heard somebody using these terms in the way
> you mentioned it.
>
> Hope that helps?
>
> Christian
>
>
> "Cascio, Chris" <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
> > For the "why be clear when you can use jargon" department:
> >
> > I quite often hear the terms "artifact" and "object" used
> > interchangeably. I always thought that they were used in different
> > contexts. My understanding is that the term "object" is used for
> > "whole" things (ex. a chair, a painting, a teapot) whereas "artifact" is
> > used for fragments of things--especially something archaeological (ex. a
> > ceramic shard).
> >
> > Maybe I'm being a bit too particular, but what's the consensus?
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Christopher M. Cascio
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