Elina Lex is a researcher and media artist working across XR technologies, sensory/creative ethnographic practices, digital storytelling, and immersive environments.
Her current research-creation work engages with immersive storytelling (XR/AR/VR), digital archives, and critical heritage studies, exploring how immersive reality technologies might generate insights for novel archival practices that centre critical, audiovisual, and sensory modes of access and reuse. For her dissertation, she is developing a publicly accessible VR project exploring counter-archives and heritage ecologies on the Chignecto Isthmus, Canada.
She is currently a PhD Candidate in Communication Studies at Concordia University and is an active researcher at the Hexagram Network for Research-Creation, the COHDS, and the Post-Image Cluster at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology.