EACH DECEMBER, Artforum invites a group of distinguished critics, curators, and artists from around the world to consider the year in art. Eleven contributors count down their top ten highlights of 2014, while six others select the single exhibition or event that, for them, rose above the rest. To cap this survey, we asked renowned novelist WILLIAM GIBSON and thinkers GRÉGOIRE CHAMAYOU and BEN VICKERS to reflect on the year in information: on how we search, map, picture, and track—and, in turn, are tracked—at a moment when the very act of communication is at once a submission to surveillance and a will to power.
LYNNE COOKE
ELENA FILIPOVIC
HAL FOSTER
DAVID RIMANELLI
DANIEL BAUMANN
SARAH LEHRER-GRAIWER
DANIEL BIRNBAUM
MICHAEL FRIED
SARAH K. RICH
WAYNE KOESTENBAUM
PAULINE J. YAO
BRIONY FER
CHRISTINE MACEL
POLLY STAPLE
TIM GRIFFIN
VINCE ALETTI
NICOLAUS SCHAFHAUSEN
WILLIAM GIBSON
GRÉGOIRE CHAMAYOU
BEN VICKERS