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, critical heritage, environmental humanities, spatial practice, immersive documentary, and public anthropology. As a current postdoc researcher at the Archives of Ontario and Connected Minds, a research program led by York University, her work explores how emergent technologies, from generative artificial intelligence to multisensory XR, can support new forms of creation, preservation, archiving, and access of digital heritage and cultural collections. She is interested in hands-on, experimental, participatory, and sustainable approaches to cultural storytelling and digital innovation.
She completed a PhD in Communication Studies at Concordia University where her research was based at the Immersive Storytelling Studio at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology. Her dissertation research-creation project was an immersive documentary heritage project exploring virtual reality and digital heritage, landscape transformation, and climate futures on the Chignecto Isthmus region of Canada. Her thesis earned her the Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Prize in Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Concordia University.