Elina Lex is a researcher, media artist, and cultural technologist working at the intersection of extended reality technologies (XR) and digital storytelling.
Her work engages across disciplines of digital archives, heritage, environmental humanities, and public anthropology. Bridging physical and digital spaces, she explores how extended and virtual reality can support critical, sensory, and accessible forms of cultural storytelling. Her recent PhD project explored immersive storytelling through a place-based VR experience exploring landscape transformation, archival and 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.