Eddie Duggan is a British photographer, film-maker, screenwriter, author and academic games historian.

Photography

Eddie Duggan's photographs of bands on the burgeoning music scene in 1970s London have been published in both the underground and the mainstream music press. His photographs have been published in fanzines including ''

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'' and ''Livewire'' as well as in titles including ''

New Musical Express ''New Musical Express'' (''NME'') is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie', the NME would become a magazine that ended up as a f ...

'', ''

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'' and ''

Record Mirror ''Record Mirror'' was a British weekly music newspaper between 1954 and 1991 for pop fans and record collectors. Launched two years after the ''NME'', it never attained the circulation of its rival. The first UK album chart was published in ''Re ...

''. Duggan's photographs have also appeared in books, including Sam Knee (2017) ''Untypical Girls: Styles and Sounds of the Transatlantic Indie Revolution'', Teal Triggs (2010) ''Fanzines'', and Paul Marko (2007) ''The Roxy, London WC2: A Punk History''. Some of Duggan's recollections of early punk gigs in London are included in "a really great interview with Eddie Duggan" and Duggan is also discussed by Deborah Harry and Chris Stein in ''Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie''. An exhibition, entitled ''A la recherche du punk perdu'' showed Duggan's photography together with that of Blondie-founder

Chris Stein Christopher Stein (born January 5, 1950) is an American musician known as the co-founder and guitarist of the new wave band Blondie. He is also a producer and performer for the classic soundtrack of the hip hop film '' Wild Style'', and write ...

at the

University of Suffolk The University of Suffolk is a public university situated in Suffolk and Norfolk, England. The modern university was established in 2007 as University Campus Suffolk (UCS), the institution was founded as a unique collaboration between the Univer ...

. The exhibition also included fanzines, flyers, badges and books from the collection of Professor Teal Triggs. Chris Stein includes a photograph of Duggan in ''Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie'', in which Stein and Deborah Harry recall their first meeting him during a press event in London at which he represented ''

''. Duggan subsequently toured with Blondie and was pressed into service as a giant ant, performing nightly on stage with Deborah Harry during the song ''Attack of the Giant Ants''. Duggan is also pictured on the cover of the ''New Wave'' compilation album (Vertigo, 1978). He appears in the iconic and much-reproduced Chris Moorhouse photograph of the Clash gig at London's Rainbow Theatre, 9 May 1977, in which the audience passes broken seats on to the stage. Duggan discusses the photograph and the gig in an article in ''The Guardian''.

Machinima

As a film maker, Duggan's directorial debut is a computer-animated 14-minute short, a

machinima Machinima, originally machinema () is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video games are used to generate the computer animation. The word "machinima" is a portmanteau of the words ''ma ...

piece entitled "Looking for the Truth" which was screened at the Ma-Machinima International Film Festival in Amsterdam (2011). Duggan's machinima piece has also been shown at an

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event in London (2012) and was also featured in the highlights reel of the 2010 MachinimaExpo held in

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. Duggan was also involved with the hosting of Machinexpo 2009, providing the venue in form of UCSVille, a second-life island featuring virtual campus created by a computer game design student Radek Spacek. Duggan is also the subject of a case-study for his machinima-related teaching, in which he is credited as something of a pioneer, being one of the first to use machinima creatively in Higher Education.

Writing

As a writer of fiction, Duggan is credited with the screenplay Hamsters, which was selected as a Twisted Horror Picture Show short-screenplay finalist in the 2016 Twister Alley Film Festival. His crime genre short-stories have also been published in the now-defunct ''Blue Murder Magazine'' and in the British title ''Crime Time''. The latter has also published a number of Duggan's articles about various

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and

Noir fiction Noir fiction (or roman noir) is a subgenre of crime fiction. Definition In its modern form, noir has come to denote a marked darkness in theme and subject matter, generally featuring a disturbing mixture of sex and violence and death in some ...

authors, including

Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade ('' ...

David Goodis David Loeb Goodis (March 2, 1917 – January 7, 1967) was an American writer of crime fiction noted for his output of short stories and novels in the noir fiction genre. Born in Philadelphia, Goodis alternately resided there and in New York Cit ...

and

Cornell Woolrich Cornell George Hopley Woolrich ( ; December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer. He sometimes used the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich th ...

Academia

Eddie Duggan is also an academic games historian. He hosted the 2014 Board Game Studies Colloquium at UCS (which has since become the

) and subsequently edited a volume of proceedings published by Associação Ludus. As a member of the International Board Game Studies Association, Duggan regularly presents research related to the history of games and has contributed a chapter on

Pervasive Games Pervasive may refer to: *Pervasive Computing, human computer interaction paradigm * Pervasive Informatics, study of how information affects human interactions *Pervasive Software, software company in the United States **Pervasive PSQL, software d ...

to a collection published by Springer in the Gaming Media and Social Effects series.Duggan, E. (2017) "Squaring the (Magic) Circle: A Brief Definition and History of Pervasive Games"
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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Duggan, Eddie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter Alumni of the University of Wolverhampton British photographers Alumni of the University of Surrey Academics of the University of Surrey