Elina is an interdisciplinary researcher and media artist working across XR (VR/AR/MR) technologies, digital archives, and immersive environments. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Communication Studies at Concordia University, where her current work is exploring uses of immersive reality technologies for generating new archival 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 and heritage ecologies on the Tantramar Marshes on the Bay of Fundy.
My research areas of expertise focus on practice-based research in:
• immersive media technologies
• VR/AR/XR design
• digital storytelling
• accessible and inclusive VR/AR/XR
• digital humanities, digitization and access in archives
• critical heritage studies, sustainability and heritage futures
• sensory-based research and ethnography, multi-modal anthropology
• research-creation
• cinema/screen/media studies broadly
