Julie Martin has been an active figure in the New York art community since the 1960s. She joined the staff of E.A.T., founded by Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whitman, Billy Klüver, and fellow Bell Labs engineer Fred Waldhauer, as editor of the newsletter and continued to work closely with Klüver on the great variety of projects that E.A.T. carried out from 1966 to the present.