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, heritage studies, environmental humanities, spatial practice, immersive documentary, 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 research focused on immersive, place-based storytelling through a VR experience exploring landscape transformation, 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.