Elina Lex is a researcher and media artist working across XR technologies, digital storytelling, interactive documentary, sensory anthropology, and immersive environments.
Her current research-creation practice investigates the intersections of immersive digital storytelling (XR/AR/VR), digital archives, and virtual heritage. She examines how extended reality technologies can foster alternative heritage practices grounded in critical, sensory, and audiovisual forms of access and reuse. Her dissertation project centers on the creation of a publicly accessible VR experience exploring counter-archival methods, heritage ecologies, and climate futures in the Chignecto Isthmus region of Canada.
She is currently a PhD Candidate in Communication Studies at Concordia University and is an active researcher at the Immersive Storytelling Studio at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology.