Elina Lex is a researcher, media artist, and cultural technologist working at the intersection of extended reality technologies (XR), digital storytelling, and social innovation. Her work spans digital archives and heritage, environmental humanities, spatial practice, immersive documentary, and public anthropology. Bridging physical and digital spaces, her work has explored how extended and virtual reality can support creative reuse of digital archives and collections as well as critical, sensory, and accessible forms of cultural storytelling. Her recent PhD research focused on immersive, place-based storytelling through a VR project exploring landscape transformation, digital heritage preservation, 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.