He is a descendant from the Dutch Lemmens family originating from the village of St. Anthonis in North Brabant, the Netherlands After a time teaching at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, he took a position at Indiana State University in Terre Haute.

[2] In the early 1960s, Lamis and his cubist sculptures were well received in New York City, and he was invited to join the Contemporaries Gallery.

[3] Lamis was strongly influenced by constructivism, which he read about as an art student, particularly the theories of Naum Gabo, Antoine Pevsner and Richard Lippold.

[4] Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, Lamis worked with sheet acrylic (Poly(methyl methacrylate), more commonly called Plexiglas), drawn to its reflective and refractive qualities.

[9] One of Lamis's tools of choice for his digital art was the IBM PCjr, which, according to his wife Esther, he began using around its release in 1984 and was still working with as late as 1998, long after the particular computer model had been discontinued.