Session 2 - Art & Artefact

Before doing the theory let's test our paper airplanes!

Art

1. (uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. 

   There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.

2. (countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.

   She's mastered the art of programming.

3. (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.

   He's at university to study art.

Artifact

artifact (plural artifacts)

1. An object made or shaped by human hand.


2. (archaeology) An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation. 
   

   
   

   The dig produced many Roman artifacts.



3. Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element. 


4. A structure or finding in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error.
   

   
   

   The spot on his lung turned out to be an artifact of the X-ray process.

   
   


5. (biology) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death, method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life.


6. An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.


7. (computing) A perceptible distortion that appears in a digital image, audio or video file as a result of applying a lossy compression algorithm.

Our definitions

Akif - used to be in purpose of creating/reaching Beauty

Anna - creative way of dealing with the world

Kohei - unconvenient and innovative

Ozcan - expression of thoughts/intuitions/desires