Elina Lex is a researcher and media artist working across XR technologies, digital storytelling, digital archives, sensory anthropology, and immersive environments.
Her current research-creation work explores the intersections of immersive storytelling (XR/AR/VR), digital archives, and education, exploring how immersive reality technologies might generate new heritage practices that centre critical, audiovisual, and sensory modes of access and reuse. For her dissertation she is developing a publicly accessible VR project exploring counter-archives, heritage ecologies, and expanded ecologies of sensing on the tidal salt marshes in the Chignecto Isthmus, Canada.
She is currently a PhD Candidate in Communication Studies at Concordia University and is an active researcher at the Immersive Storytelling Studio at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology.