The family left German-occupied Latvia during World War II before the second Soviet occupation, moving west until they eventually reached American-occupied Germany.
With the turn of the 1970s, she left her previous job with WBBM and began working with TVTV with other video pioneer and visionary Tom Weinberg.
In 1972, the group decided to focus on experimentation with five uses of tape: Another one of their activities consisted of promoting the importance of women in video and film.
These tapes would show stories of women who had gotten illegal abortions, a national lesbian conference, the making of a centerfold, the Miss California pageant, chronicling a childbirth, etc.
The series changed television by putting the garbage man, truck driver, or factory workers face, "on screen as well as in front of the tube".
[11] The group was founded by Allen Rucker, Michael Shamberg, Tom Weinberg, Hudson Marquez and Megan Williams.
Anda Korst, worked with TVTV and Antfarm video collective's team consisting of containing Wendy Appel, Skip Blumberg, Nancy Cain, Steve Christiansen, Michael Couzens, Bart Friedman, Chuck Kennedy, Chip Lord, Maureen Orth, Hudson Marquez, Martha Miller, T.L.
Morey, Alan Rucker, Ira Schneider, Michael Shamberg, Jodi Silbert, Tom Weinberg and Megan Williams.
[13][14] The video was later separately put on public television within an interview conducted by Marty Robinson with both TVTVs Anda Korsts and Tom Weinberg.
The Portapak video technology made their success possible—allowing collective members to access sections at the event that were otherwise off limits to large production companies.
The Artaud Project was performed through January 1980 at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, after Korsts and Rinnert had worked for more than a year to bring it to the stage.
Scenic design by Mary Griswold, lighting by Geoffrey Bushor and image processing by Mark Fausner were essential elements of the show, which won a special Joseph Jefferson award for "Extraordinary Theater Production."
Miller's stage performance, Korsts's video work and the image processing used to help visually depict Artaud's mental illness and drug experiences, made the experimental production unique in Chicago's world-class theater.