ABSTRACT
In its earliest form, we encountered video images inside the magic box of early broadcast television. To some observers it might well have seemed that inside that box there was an animated dollhouse inhabited by miniaturized people, caught in some eldritch sorcery. On the tiny stage, classic theatrical dramas were being performed. The bulky boxes held a magical space, a space that in turn magically held our attention. A space that was rescaled relative to that of our living rooms, but that also seemed a spatial extension of them into another dimension. Some of these boxes had wooden doors, to be opened like any other cabinet or tiny closet. As children, we pressed our noses against the glass, wondering if we could somehow get inside this ante-room that opened up to elsewhere.
