The Video and the Web panel at #SMartCAMP (Social Media Art Camp) at the Roger Smith Hotel was a highlight of the weekend.  If you are interested in conquering web video distribution this panel hosts good insight into the world of video online.

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MONI PINEDA

Multi-media artist Moni Pineda and filmmaker Mike Vargas co-founded Friends We Love, a boutique production company and web TV station with a mission to create, educate & celebrate through the arts. FWL consists of short-documentary series, educational initiatives and public art events to bridge the online & offline communities.  With combined production experience of 18 years, the team’s client list includes Nike, Overbrook Entertainment, Diesel & Absolut while their work has been nationally broadcast on PBS and Discovery’s Travel Channel and screened at various international film festivals.

ERIC MORTENSEN

Building on prior experience in art, technology and digital media, Eric Mortensen joined blip.tv in 2006 as the Director of Content, where he oversees discovery of and interaction with new media content creators. As a founder of the pioneering social bookmarking site, linkfilter.net, a prolific blogger and the co-founder of Digital Dissonance — a digital music collaboration created in 1994 and pre-dating the commercial Internet — Mortensen has spent more than fourteen years as a new media innovator and expert. After studying Music Synthesis at Berklee College of Music, Mortensen held various positions in both old and new media as musician, web designer, data analyst and technology consultant.

JONATHAN MUNAR
Jonathan Munar is the Web Manager at Art21—a non-profit contemporary arts organization and producer of a Peabody Award-winning PBS series—where he manages the Art21 Web presence, initiatives, and strategies, as well as the organization’s social media activities. Jonathan is the editor the “Art 2.1? column on the Art21 blog, which explores the uses of social and Web-based technologies by artists, museums, and other relevant arts organizations and individuals. Before joining Art21 in 2008, Jonathan was the Website Technology Manager at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

RYAN LAWLER

Ryan has spent the last 5 years covering business, technology, and telecom-related subjects for a variety of publications based in New York. He’s the newest staff writer for GigaOm and NewTeeVee, but spent the previous two years following online video and digital media trends at Contentinople. Prior to that, Ryan covered telecom infrastructure for Light Reading.