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
>
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