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 critical heritage, environmental humanities, spatial practice, immersive documentary, and public anthropology. Bridging physical and digital spaces, her work has explored how emergent technologies from virtual reality to artificial intelligence can support creative reuse of digital archives and collections and promote critical, sensory, accessible, and sustainable forms of cultural storytelling. She is interested in hands-on, experimental, and participatory approaches to 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.