How to refiine n make my statements into a FINE ART?

Great works of the Web-ern Canon

• A lot of ink has been spilled on the subject of whether video games are art, but http://www.metafilter.com/143644/Let-Me-Tell-You-About-Homestuck reminded me that comparatively little has been written on the idea of Internet Art. Such works that leverage the internet as a unique creative medium fascinate me, and I'd love to find more. What are some other works that qualify? I'm not interested in functionally traditional art that happens to be distributed over the internet -- I love http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/, https://www.youtube.com/user/ERB, and http://carbonmonoxiide.angelfire.com/TIME_FOR_SOME_STORIES.htm, for instance, but they'd work just as well as a graphic novel, sketch comedy show, and book. I'm also not looking for works of scholarship (like Wikipedia or the Internet Archive), distributed platforms (like deviantART or Tumblr), or dime-a-dozen "digital art" that's little more than a software toy. I want projects that make full use of the internet as a medium -- singular, creative, preferably auteur-driven works that are only possible on the web because they take advantage of its unique social, interactive, and multimedia properties. Some good examples: - Homestuck, obvs. - http://www.theoreticallycorrect.com/thru-you/thru-you-kutiman-projects.html, which remixes dozens of amateur YouTube videos into compelling musical works. - http://www.cnet.com/news/twitch-plays-pokemon-is-now-a-fight-for-the-soul-of-the-internet/, where a web chat room hooked up to a Pokemon game spawned all kinds of crazy mythologies and an emergent debate between democracy and anarchy. - http://mappa.mundi.net/maps/maps_013/, a single sprawling virtual landscape built by thousands of users over nearly two decades -- like a virtual Burning Man playa - ARGs like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Bees and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_%28game%29, which tell complex interactive multimedia stories - http://www.yourworldoftext.com/, a huge digital graffiti wall freely editable by the world, full of poetry and ASCII art What are some other great works of Internet Art that use the web to make substantive creative statements like this?

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  There have been Whitney and MOMA shows about internet art over the last decade, and they frequently included famous internet memes. When I think of the phrase "Great Works of Internet Art" the first site that comes to mind is http://www.superbad.com/.