Elina Lex is a researcher and media artist working at the intersection of XR technologies, digital storytelling, environmental humanities, and sensory anthropology.
Her practice engages immersive media formats across heritage, archives, and public anthropology, bridging physical and digital spaces. She explores how extended and virtual reality (XR/VR) can support critical, sensory, and accessible forms of cultural storytelling and reuse. Her PhD research-creation project examined immersive XR storytelling, digital archiving, and critical vitual heritage. As part of this work, she developed a place-based VR experience exploring landscape transformation, heritage storytelling, and climate futures on the Chignecto Isthmus region of Canada,
She has a PhD in Communication Studies from Concordia University, Montreal and is an active researcher at the Immersive Storytelling Studio at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology.