Elina Lex is an interdisciplinary researcher and media artist working across XR technologies, digital archives, environmental history, and immersive storytelling. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Communication Studies at Concordia University, where her current work intersects immersive media technologies and digital heritage, exploring how emergent media technologies might provide new ways to archive and preserve, provide access to, and mobilize more diverse and future-oriented processes of heritage making. Her current graduate work is an XR project exploring coastal histories, living archives, and heritage under transformation on the ever-changing salt marshes on the Bay of Fundy.