Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 84. Chapters: Yoko Ono, John Oswald, Joseph Nechvatal, Roberto Paci Dalò, John Duncan, Petri Kuljuntausta, Boyd Rice, Z'EV, Stephan Mathieu, Herbert Distel, Clinker, Alva Noto, Marc Sabat, Max Neuhaus, Malek Jandali, David Prior, Alvin Lucier, Alejandra and Aeron, Anla Courtis, Rod Summers, Henry Flynt, WAZA, Peter Van Riper, Robin Rimbaud, Judy Dunaway, Zavoloka, Howard Stelzer, Georg Klein, Susan Philipsz, Marcus Schmickler, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Joe Jones, Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Paul DeMarinis, Christopher Janney, Tom Hall, Terry Fox, Miguel Álvarez-Fernández, Celer, Jim Pomeroy, Norbert Walter Peters, Matteo Marchisano-Adamo, Ellen Fullman, Nick Cave, Ryoji Ikeda, Pierre Henry, Vittore Baroni, Thanasis Kaproulias, Francisco López, Takehisa Kosugi, Dror Feiler, Tracie Morris, Gregory Whitehead, Cosey Fanni Tutti, List of sound artists, Yasunao Tone, Janek Schaefer, Brenda Hutchinson, Erwin Redl, Walton Creel, Teho Teardo, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, CoH, Lance Dann, Machinefabriek, Jerry Hunt, Bill Fontana, Angela Bulloch, Jørgen Larsson, Stephen Vitiello, Liz Phillips, Ron Kuivila, Abinadi Meza, M. W. Burns, Christina Kubisch, Åke Hodell, Jeff Jacoby, Marina Rosenfeld, Soundlab. Excerpt: Yoko Ono Ono Yoko, born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront through her music which prefigured New Wave music (whether she was a direct influence is still debated). and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs. Yoko Ono was born in 1933 to mother Isoko Ono, the great-granddaughter of Zenjiro Yasuda of the Yasuda banking family, and to father Yeisuke Ono, a banker and one-time classical pianist who was a descendant of an Emperor of Japan. The name "Yoko" means "ocean child". Two weeks before she was born, her father was transferred to San Francisco by his employer, the Yokohama Specie Bank. The rest of the family followed soon after and Yoko met her father when she was two. Her younger brother Keisuke was born in December 1936. In 1937, her father was transferred back to Japan and Ono was enrolled at Tokyo's Gakushuin (also known as the Peers School), one of the most exclusive schools in Japan. In 1940, the family moved to New York City, where Ono's father was working. In 1941, her father was transferred to Hanoi and the family returned to Japan. Ono was then enrolled in Keimei Gakuen, an exclusive Christian primary school run by the Mitsui family. She remained in Tokyo through the great fire-bombing of March 9, 1945. During the fire-bombing, she was sheltered with other members of her family in a special bunker in the Azabu district of Tokyo, far from the heavy bombing. After the bombing, Ono went to the Karuizawa mountain resort with members of her family. Ono has said that she and her family were forced to beg for food while pulling their belongings in a wheelbarrow, and it was during this period in her life that Ono says she developed her "aggressive" attitude and understanding of "outsider" status when children taunted her and her broth