Rasa

A Foundation Embedding for Art

The Program

Rasa is a foundation embedding for art — a single learned representation that fuses image content, curatorial metadata, artist biography, collector behaviour, and market price into one continuous space. The embedding is the asset. Recommendation, search, valuation, and attribution are all downstream affordances of the same model.

The architectural commitment that distinguishes this from a conventional recommender: the embedding is attribution-grade. Every recommendation is traceable to the training data that shaped it, and every contributor — artist, gallery, data partner — receives credit proportional to their measurable contribution to the system's value.

Team

Zachary F. Mainen
Champalimaud Foundation

Andrew Wolff
Beowolff Capital

Kyo Iigaya
Columbia University

Daniel McNamee
Champalimaud Foundation

Guide

The program explained for the art world. 13 chapters, no equations, real examples. Each links to the Reader for technical depth.

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Reader

Full technical deep dive. Same 13 chapters at tutorial depth — loss functions, architecture decisions, worked examples.

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Whitepapers

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Visualiser

Interactive map of 690,000+ artworks projected into aesthetic space. Pan, zoom, discover.

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