Elina Lex is a researcher and media artist working across XR technologies, digital storytelling, interactive documentary, sensory ethnography, and environmental humanities.
Designing across physical and digital spaces, her work has focused on the affordances of extended and virtual reality for place-based digital storytelling grounded in critical, sensory, and digital forms of access and reuse. Her PhD dissertation research-creation project explored intersections of immersive XR storytelling, digital archives, and virtual heritage through the creation of a place-based VR experience exploring counter-archives, heritage ecologies, and climate futures in 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.